Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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One G.I. summed it up: "It ain't the rules; it's the man. Same as back in the world. A black man is the only one they grab for spitting on the streets. Over here if a bunch of brothers get together to blow some grass, right...
This sort of feeling has given rise to a special variation of the intricate signal that black soldiers in Viet Nam exchange when they meet. The standard greeting includes two taps on the chest -meaning "I will die for you." In Soul Alley, some blacks add a swift downward motion...
FOR six years a special presidential commission studied possible routes for an Atlantic-Pacific waterway to replace the existing Panama Canal. A route along the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican border looked appealing; so did one through Colombia. Last week, however, the commission recommended a 36-mile sea-level canal across Panama...
The five-man commission, headed by former Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson, rejected the routes outside Panama because their length and terrain would have required nuclear excavation. Scientists have not been able to conduct such explosions without unacceptably high radiation. Construction by conventional means will take 14 years...
The physical problems pale alongside the political ones, which have been festering since Panama's anti-American riots of 1964. While footing an estimated $2.9 billion construction bill, the U.S. will have to meet Panama's demands for a bigger say in operating the new waterway-and a...