Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though Young also warned the Palestinians that their aims cannot be achieved through terrorism, his admonition to the Israelis signified a rising concern in Washington that Israel's air and artillery attacks are jeopardizing the delicate peace process. For four months Israel and its Christian Lebanese allies have relentlessly bombarded real or imagined bastions of Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon in what some U.S. officials openly describe as a "scorched earth strategy." In recent weeks these attacks have increased sharply, killing large numbers of Lebanese civilians, destroying hundreds of civilian homes, and in the process further tarnishing Israel...
...recent raids. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan questioned whether the policy was worth the price in terms of world opinion, but the Israeli Cabinet decided that the strikes should continue. Some Cabinet members also criticized Dayan for engaging in a bit of private fact-finding reminiscent of Andy Young: an unauthorized meeting with P.L.O. sympathizers in Gaza. Unlike Young, Dayan kept his job. The Israelis say their aims in southern Lebanon are threefold: to force the Palestinian guerrillas to leave the area, to help the enclave of Lebanese Christians and Shi'ites survive in a buffer zone along the border...
...among West Germans have been rising at alarming rates over the past two years, especially in West Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and other large cities. Federal statistics indicate 43,000 known drug addicts in the country. But police estimate the real figure is twice that number. The vast majority are young Germans between the ages...
...Anti-Slavery Society provided some horrendous examples. A number of match factories in India are employing over 20,000 tots, some as young as five, for 16 hours a day, beginning at 3 a.m. In Colombia the work force includes 3 million children, many of whom labor in ill-ventilated, dangerous coal-mine shafts...
...company-owned property of about 5,800 sq. mi., which is larger than Connecticut. The pulp factory and its ancillaries cost $400 million to construct. A companion plant is expected to be towed up the river and put in operation by the mid-1980s. To feed the plants with young trees, a vast reforestation is under way that will clear the land of old growth and establish huge new timber farms. The principal planting is the Gmelina arborea (pronounced malina ar-bor-ea), a hardwood native to Burma and India that grows to 15 in. in diameter in five years...