Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what extent is Z an accurate portrayal of affairs in Greece? According to its director, Greek Exile Constantin Costa-Gavras, it is based throughout on "real facts." Up to a point, he is right. The movie faithfully re-creates an incident in 1963 when a leading left-wing deputy, Grigorios Lambrakis, was struck and killed by a pickup truck after addressing a rally in Salonica. As in the film, the death was first labeled an accident, but a tenacious prosecutor gathered enough evidence to show two right-wing thugs had been hired by police to commit the deed...
...Arabists prevailed, and the Nixon Administration decided to turn down Israel's request rather than unbalance the Middle East. But that decision was nearly overturned after the President discovered the extent of the Russian military penetration into Egypt. Russian MIGs were stationed at airbases close to the Suez Canal. The Soviet missiles had been moved near the canal in large numbers; using improved Russian equipment, Egyptian missile crews had already shot down Phantoms for the first time, destroying four within a 19-day period. The Administration seemed to be in a mood of confrontation again, rather than...
Minimal Risk. In publishing Bucher: My Story and in assisting Journalist Trevor Armbrister to prepare A Matter of Accountability, Bucher rebels against the role of scapegoat that the Navy's board of inquiry tried to assign him and a few others. The commander succeeds to the extent that he shows his real adversary to have been a fantastically inefficient bureaucracy-the U.S. Navy. Armbrister's findings generally support Bucher. Yet these two densely detailed books also show, almost inadvertently, that Bucher himself was not the decisive officer he might have been...
...asked police to start redressing the balance to some extent." Alexander Zavelle, manager of the Coop and spokesman for the merchants, said yesterday...
Ichord said that the HISC wants the information to determine "the extent to which today's extremist and radical speakers have used the forum of college and university campuses to finance revolutionary violence among a militant minority of young people...