Word: went
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American intelligence. The White House protested that Hanoi has been diverting international relief supplies intended for Cambodia's hungry civilians to its own occupying troops. However, Washington's appeal "not to feed the flames of war, but to use your aircraft and airfields to feed the people" went unheeded. When two U.S. Air Force cargo planes tried to fly into Phnom-Penh last week with cranes to be used for un loading relief supplies, Hanoi ordered the airport closed to them...
...Correspondents Fred Francis and George Lewis. A student spokesman who called herself Mary would make unedited opening and closing statements, but the newsmen did not have to clear their questions in advance. Said Tehran Bureau Chief Walter Millis: "That way we could control the interview, and if it really went off the wall, we could kill...
...from its previous price of $18 per bbl., to $24, and it means still more inflation for the world. Other so-called OPEC moderates also posted increases. Venezuela, the cartel's fourth largest producer, moved from $20 per bbl. to $24, while Qatar and the United Arab Emirates went from approximately $21.50 to about...
...when the government last tried to raise food prices (bread went to 2?), riots erupted that nearly toppled Sadat. But if the President is to get more foreign loans-he has said that Egypt will need $18.5 billion over the next five years-he needs the approval of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF has been pressing Egypt for economic reforms, particularly a cut in the subsidies, and it is sending a team to Cairo this month to see what progress has been made...
...career of for mer Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic. Now a sculpture of Bilandic and his socialite wife Heather, by John Setick, has created another blizzard, this one of controversy. Sefick's The Bilandics, which the sculptor describes as "a Chicago rendition of Grant Wood's American Gothic, "went on display in the city's Daley Center in mid-November. The work depicts the couple relaxing, with a taped voice coming from the former mayor's figure saying: "Put another log on the fire, Heather. I think it is beginning to snow again. My God, there must...