Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state of Kerala, in southwest India, is overpopulated even by Indian standards, and life is hard for its 20 million residents. For the state's 2,600,000 Latin-and Syrian-rite Catholics, the burden is even heavier. Strictly loyal to papal birth-control teachings, Catholic families, some with incomes of less than $350 a year, often have between eight and 15 children. Thus dowries for marriageable girls are out of the question. Under such conditions, an opportunity to send a daughter off to a European convent was like a godsend-and hundreds of families took advantage...
...Done? Texas wells produce little industrial oil, however, and there is nothing that Washington could have done to prevent the shortage of heavy heating oil. For the next few months, the energy shortage seems bound to worsen, barring a return of tranquillity to the Middle East, repair of the Syrian pipeline break and a consequent freeing of tanker tonnage. Nuclear-power plants have been delayed by costs, safety concerns and opposition from environmental groups, and cannot be expected to fill much of the energy gap before the early 1980s. In the meantime, if the nation wants to ease the great...
...diamonds, but it has developed other sources as well. Western but not capitalist, white but not colonial, skilled but not rich, the Israelis were able to find friends-and diamonds -in the Congo (Brazzaville), Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast. Israel even gets stones from Arabs; Syrian and Lebanese diamond buyers in Africa secretly sell to Tel Aviv...
...Arab governments presumably would withhold that tactical support, as Jordan's King Hussein last week ordered his troops to do. But the guerrillas could still shower Israel from three countries with their small-arms fire and with rockets and mortars. Israelis who live in settlements near the Jordanian, Syrian and Lebanese frontiers will almost certainly have to continue sleeping in shelters, even after a formal cease-fire begins...
...Golan Heights-"We should not claim it permanently, but the Syrian border should be adjusted to give us the headwaters of the Jordan, which are our main water supply. The Heights should be demilitarized...