Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Bonn one night this week on what could prove to be the most historic journey in postwar German history. The express will halt briefly at the small town of Gerstungen on the border between West and East Germany. There an East German engine and crew will take over to pull the train the remaining 40 miles to the ancient city of Erfurt. The next morning, when West German Chancellor Willy Brandt steps from his sleeping car at the Erfurt station, he will be greeted by Willi Stoph, the Premier of the German Democratic Republic...
Norway and Denmark were the first to pull out. A few days later, the U.S. declared that it still considered Britain the "lawful sovereign" in Rhodesia, and followed suit. Washington's undisguised snub precipitated a wholesale departure. Italy, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Austria and West Germany shut down; Switzerland wavered. Only South Africa and Portugal-both of which back Smith's regime-and Greece, which has an honorary consul there, were sure to remain...
...tour. During the trip, the leaders of at least six Black African nations objected to continued U.S. relations with a country in which 234,000 whites exert total control over roughly 5,000,000 blacks. Britain, which withdrew its diplomatic representation last year, had also urged the U.S. to pull out, and a United Nations Security Council resolution, passed in 1965, called for diplomatic isolation of Rhodesia...
...Barbara Mutton's daughter-in-law, Cheryl Reventlow). Dues of $20 a year were established, mainly to cover costs of petitions and bumper stickers like the one already being printed in shocking pink and shocking language: UP YOUR MIDI. "We're not going to let them pull the wool over our legs as well as our eyes," says Mrs. Hutner, miniskirt flashing. "Women aren't going to be sheep any more." Sheepishly, L.A. Mayor Sam Yorty agreed to celebrate this week as POOFF week, with booths for petition signing set up in front of the city...
...questions to start a conversation, overjoyed to get the chance to discuss their schools, the careers they wanted to pursue, and to find out about the revolutionary movement in the United States. They all knew about the Black Panther Party and SDS, wished us luck in pressuring Nixon to pull out of Vietnam and liked to compare their cane-cutting averages to ours...