Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Russians had a specific choice for successor, it was more likely Sabry than Sadat. Former secretary-general of the Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party, Sabry was the most pro-Soviet of all of Nasser's advisers. But he was a difficult choice to put over. Not only is his health almost as bad as Nasser's was-he has a heart condition-but his personality is about as drab as Sadat's. Nevertheless, Sadat is likely to share considerable power with Sabry and Interior Minister and former Chief of Intelligence Shaarawi Gomaa...
...kidnapers espouse a cause that has inspired Quebeckers ever since General Wolfe's redcoats defeated Montcalm's French army on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and imposed British rule. In last April's provincial elections, René Levesque's Parti Québecois, which demands an independent Quebec free of political ties to Canada, won 24% of the vote. But while most separatists seek their goals by peaceable means, a number seek to turn their fight for French separatism into full-scale urban guerrilla war. The Liberation Front, which probably numbers no more than...
...Stein, 35, is a highly skilled British forger of post-impressionist paintings. After a London gallery exhibited his fakes-billing the show as "Master Forger David Stein Presents Braque, Klee, Miró, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso"-a Manhattan gallery eagerly tried to follow suit. New York State's attorney general took the gallery to court, contending that the paintings would be a public nuisance. But New York Supreme Court Justice Arnold Fein sided with Stein and the gallery. Since Stein signed his name to the paintings and gave fair notice that the works were "in the style of" the great...
...turned out, Peterson was no routine defendant. He knew that the Uniform Code of Military Justice guarantees a right to civilian counsel. Furthermore, his relatives got help from a new private organization: the Lawyers Military Defense Committee, which is sponsored by such legal notables as former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. The committee was about to open a Saigon office to provide free civilian counsel for U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, and Peterson was a natural first client...
Grabbing Rats. "The strike," said Alan Fisher, general secretary of the National Union of Public Employees, "is to demonstrate the value of the workers and the services they provide." It did just that. Britons were suddenly aware of the man-made torrents that roar ceaselessly under city pavements. "If the pumps stop for only half an hour," warned a London official, "the sewage will start coming up. London could be swamped. People could be drowned." A sewage worker gave another perspective: "My job is to stand by a screen wearing gloves, picking off by hand anything that comes along...