Word: spring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets. So did Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, South Korean Strongman Syngman Rhee, Cambodia's Marshal Lon Nol and Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista. South Viet Nam's former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, a resident of California, will be eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship next spring...
...strike hard and fast, conveying a clear message to wavering local politicians that they must join him now or be left behind. Reagan's strategists hope that the blitz will lead to early victories in Iowa, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Florida, thus locking up the nomination before spring. Contends Reagan Press Secretary Jim Lake: "If we win the early primaries, we think it will be all over...
...Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which separates Lake Superior from lakes Michigan and Huron, there are bumper stickers that exhort: SAVE A FISH-SPEAR AN INDIAN. Whites have fired shots at Chippewa fishermen, smashed their boats and slashed their tires. The confrontation intensified last spring after Federal Judge Noel Fox ruled that, under treaties signed in 1836 and 1855, the state could not regulate fishing by Indians. Said Fox: "The fish belong to the Indians as a matter of right." Since then, many Chippewas on the poverty-battered Bay Mills reservation have become full-time commercial fishermen...
Since last spring, the number of drilling rigs at work in the U.S. has jumped from 1,929 to 2,434. That is more than the 21-year high of 2,385 in October of last year. The count could climb to close to 2,600 in December...
...uncertain whether Beck can capitalize on his aggressive image and persuade regional offices to remedy the most flagrant instances of chemical pollution. Until he produces some substantive improvements, Americans can only hope that, if there is a hazardous waste dump in their neighborhood, it will not spring a leak...