Word: wound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NATO nations were in Washington to talk about rapidly growing Soviet military forces. To offset the threat to Western Europe, the NATO summit gave final approval to a 15-year program that will substantially increase the alliance's defenses. But despite their preoccupation with Europe, the NATO leaders wound up devoting much time to Soviet moves in Africa and President Carter's call for them to support the U.S. position. Said he: "Our alliance centers on Europe, but our vigilance cannot be limited to the Continent...
...Western leaders easily reached agreement on the defense program, they sidestepped another serious problem: the hostility between NATO members Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. One senior diplomat called the schism "a serious menace to NATO'S eastern flank, perhaps even to the alliance's future. It is a terrible wound." Making it even worse, in NATO'S eyes, is Congress's 1974 embargo on U.S. arms shipments to Turkey, which used weapons provided by the U.S. in Cyprus...
...supported by an amendment to last year's farm bill, which was designed to raise U.S. prices of sugar to 13.5¢ per Ib. But that has not been enough for the growers, who contend that they cannot make a profit at that price. So last week the House wound up subcommittee public hearings on a bill that would use import quotas and fees to set a floor price for sugar of 17¢ per Ib. The same bill has been put forward in the Senate by Idaho Democrat Frank Church, and it has 34 cosponsors...
...years ago when Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret, wound up British royalty's longest romantic melodrama since the days of Edward VIII and Wallis ("the woman I love") Simpson by dropping her hopes of marrying Group Captain Peter Townsend. For all of his qualifications as a royal spouse, the dashing Battle of Britain hero had that fatal divorce in his background. So Britons were doubly cheered when, five years later at 29, the willful Meg finally made it to the altar, this time with Antony Armstrong-Jones, the arty son of a Welsh barrister and a promising...
...turmoil on campus a decade ago, stopping out was often a gesture of defiance. Now it is just as likely to indicate ambition. Oliver Miller, 24, a Yale senior who will be leaving for Oxford this fall as a Rhodes scholar, took off for two years in 1975 and wound up in Atlanta, where he became one of two aides on the issues staff of the fledgling Jimmy Carter presidential campaign. "It was an incredible education," he recalls, "the kind I don't think you could ever get from a textbook." Paul Albritton, 21, a Yale junior who spent...