Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report said 200 were known dead in Yugoslavia and quoted the Albanian News Agency's account, which reported 35 persons killed and 50 injured in Albania, a southern neighbor...
...Panda cigarette as he aimed an unmistakable rebuke at what Peking considers the jelly-bellied Western response to adventurism by the Soviets and their clients. Teng also gave the fullest explanation yet of the motives behind China's two-week-old "punitive" invasion of its southern neighbor, Viet Nam. In an effort to placate international alarm, he repeated assurances that the operation "will be limited in degree and will not last a long time," perhaps no longer than China's four-week invasion of India in 1962. There were reports at week's end, in fact, that...
...Nazi aggression" and "Peking blitzkrieg" are calculated to stir up traumatic memories of the devastation and suffering caused by the German invasion. Very few Soviet citizens are aware that the Chinese army is not designed, trained or equipped to invade Soviet territory. As perceived by the Soviets, their Chinese neighbor constitutes a potential plague of locusts, voracious and unstoppable. Said one senior Soviet official duck" TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan last week: "Try to imagine how you would feel if Mexico had a billion people, nuclear weapons and a doctrine of the inevitability...
...Iraq a "fascist state." South Yemen, the Saudis believe, wants to destabilize and subvert the entire Arabian Peninsula. That gloomy view gained credibility last week as South Yemen, taking advantage of a long-simmering border dispute, launched an all-out attack on its more populous but militarily weaker northern neighbor, pro-Saudi North Yemen (The Yemen Arab Republic). A ceasefire, hastily worked out by Syria and Iraq, went into effect at week's end, but there was no certainty about how long it would last...
Sweeney is a victim of injustice. Railroaded to Australia by Judge Turpin (Edmund Lyndeck), a lecher who coveted Sweeney's beautiful wife, Sweeney escapes and returns to find his wife seemingly dead and his daughter a ward of the judge. Sweeney vows vengeance. His neighbor Mrs. Lovett has preserved his razor, and the grisly culinary combine of Lovett and Todd begins operations. There's many a slit 'twixt the throat and the lip before the cup of revenge spills over...