Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical wing agreed to take off their combat uniforms and head back north of the Litani River. But they kept their weapons, and there is no guarantee that they will not try again. Says Ghanaian General Emmanuel Erskine, UNIFL's Sandhurst-trained commander: "We have to assist the Lebanese government to establish its own authority in the area. Once that is done, I suppose it will be time for the U.N. to pull...
...believes his troops have a right to return to southern Lebanon under the terms of the 1969 Cairo agreement, in which the Lebanese government granted the Palestinians the right to operate in certain areas of southern Lebanon. Arafat has told the U.N. that he therefore believes UNIFIL should assist in the return of his forces to the area. If Arafat should decide to fight UNIFIL, as the U.N. must surely realize, he would have every chance of winning a war of attrition...
...fire, the company's job is to remove people from danger, provide medical attention, and then assist the other companies in fighting the fire. Most of the crew's time, however, is not taken up by fires but by stills (when people call Fire Alarm instead of pulling a fire box in the street), which usually involve some sort of medical emergency. Thus the Rescue company is far busier than any other company in the city, averaging close to 5000 runs a year...
Savard picked up his third assist on Pierre Larouche's marker in the second, and Jacques Lemaire beat Bruin goalie Gerry Cheevers on a long slapper for the fourth tally...
...appeal, it turned out, had raised about $30.5 million. The purpose of the fund is to assist community programs for young people who get into trouble with the law?"to reach the unreachable," as the Prince put it. Asked if the new programs would try to do something for the youthful hooligans responsible for Britain's recent outburst of football violence, Charles answered deftly, "We have not had a group identifying themselves as football hooligans apply by that name, but I hope that gently one might wean a few away from hooliganism...