Word: wreck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than does either Vance or Brzezinski, partly because he believes African nations are more interested in economic development than in ideology and thus more inclined to look to the West for help. But he is fearful that Russian adventurism could produce an emotional reaction in the U.S., which could wreck the Administration's carefully nurtured policy of seeking closer ties with black Africa...
...wreck could replace Spanish galleons as a new trove for treasure hunters: on the flight were some "extremely valuable" pieces of jewelry and mail. At present the area is under guard while authorized divers try to retrieve the booty...
...audible grumbling within the ranks last fall, when Marchais began his public jousting with the Socialists. It was ostensibly over the extent to which French industry should be nationalized under the left's Common Program; many party members feared that feuding with the Socialists on this point might wreck the left's chances of winning power...
...minutes, hovering and circling over the sea, French navy helicopters dropped load after load of depth charges. They were striking back at a very real enemy, the wreck of the American-owned supertanker Amoco Cadiz, which had leaked oil for two weeks after history's biggest spill...
...Palestinian terrorism and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon did not wreck the Sadat peace initiative entirely, they may have diverted it toward the very thing the Palestinians most fear: a separate peace between Egypt and Israel. Sadat is more isolated from his Arab brothers than ever, and probably angrier too; he was enraged almost beyond reason by the Palestinian murder of his friend Editor Youssef Sebai in Cyprus last month, and he fully recognized the effect of recent P.L.O. terrorism on his peace initiative...