Задание №13

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1. Support for the Vietnam peace demonstration in Sheffield on March 1, for the Easter march, and for other activities contributing to ending the war on the basis of the right of the Vietnamese people to decide their own affairs, was urged yesterday by the British Council for Peace in Vietnam. (M. S., 1969)

2. Exemption from taxes on capital gains up to a maximum of 1,000 a year, is asked for by the Income Tax Payers Society in a letter to the Chancellor. (M. S., 1969)

3. When the wage freeze was introduced, we were told the low paid would benefit. The Budget gives them noth­ing. They stay low paid. The increase in family allow­ances that was widely hoped for has come to nothing. (M. S., 1967)

4. Foot police flanked the marchers all the way from the London School of Economics in Aldwich. They were augmented by mobile police and there were walkie-talkies and a police van at the rear of the column, (M. S., 1968)

5. About 1,600 non-financial companies in Britain with net book assets of 1,900 million, are owned or controlled by U. S. firms, the President of the Board of Trade said yesterday in a written reply to a Commons question. (M. S., 1968)

6. Charlie, the homeless elephant at the closed-down Craigend Zoo near Glasgow, has been offered a home by the Director of Berlin Zoo. (D. W., 1969)

7. Now that we have been awakened to the danger to ani­mals and plants that the spread of Man's activities has caused, considerable effort is being put into providing the information needed for developing an understanding and appreciation of nature. (M. S., 1967)

8. The Prime Minister was shouted down tonight by 3,000 angry youngsters as he vainly tried to address a rush-hour rally from the steps of the Leeds Town Hall. (D. W., 1969)

9. Lovers of familiar symphonic fare are catered for with two Brahms symphonies and First Piano Concerto by Beethoven. (R. T., 1969)

10. The attacks on the people made in Wednesday's grim Budget were just the sort of cuts which

were ordered by the bankers throughout the world. (M. S., 1966)

11. Some of the most disastrous chapters in the history of British foreign policy have been written by those who believed that success in industrial negotiations could be paralleled in the world of foreign affairs. (The Guar­dian, 1965)

12. He was elegant, bowler-hatted and umbrellaed. (C. Wil-lock, Death in Covert)

13. The U. S. President was left in no doubt about what the ordinary people in New Zealand felt, for placards which read: "No New Zealand support for U. S. aggres­sors" were in the President's direct view in front of the official dais. (M. S., 1966)

14. Flagrant disregard for laws on shipping safety was alle­ged at an inquiry into the loss of the pleasure boat Darl-wyne with 31 lives. (M. S., 1970)

15. The Soviet people are marching the path which will sooner or later be followed by the working people of all countries, Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezh­nev said here today. He was addressing a Lenin Cente­nary celebration held jointly by the Party's Central Committee, the Supreme Soviet and the Russian Fede­ration Supreme Soviet in the Kremlin Palace of Cong­resses. (M. S., 1970)

16. In Calcutta, Premier Mrs Gandhi declared yesterday it was mass poverty that posed a real threat to Indian de­mocracy. The threat to democracy in India could be met by removing poverty from the masses. (M. S., 1970)

17. European security, the Middle East, Vietnam — on each of these issues the British Government must be forced to abandon its obstructive role and to throw its weight on the side of sanity and peace. (M S., 1970)

18. Today, the Big West End stores begin their annual sales, to be followed next week by sales in many out-of-town shopping centres. (M. S., 1969)

19. Already a heavy blow against the British people has been struck by the Government-organised increase in unemployment. This must not be followed up by a fur­ther effort to put the burdens caused by a wrong policy on the sick, the illhoused and the children. (M. S., 1968)

20. About 3,000 busmen employed by the Northern General Transport Group of companies, staged a one-day strike yesterday in support of a basic rate of pay of £1 20 a week. North Durham and Tyneside services were affected. (D. W., 1964)

21. Two of our most respected composers shared the con dueling of the Promenade concert at the Albert Hall on Saturday, which was mainly devoted to English music of the 20th century.

Malcolm Arnold took charge of the greater part of the programme. He was jointed briefly by Sir Arthur Bliss to conduct the first performance of the new version for three hands of his rarely heard concert for two pianos and orchestra. (R. T., 1969)

22. "Ready?"said the old gentleman inquiringly, when his guests had been washed, mended, brushed and brandied. (Ch. Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club)

23. "I think you had better be going back," he said. "It's rather late. They may be missing you." Maud laughed happily.

"I don't mind now what they do. But I suppose dinners must be dressed for, whatever happens." (P. G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress)

24. Two more strikes of natural gas have been made in the North Sea off the Yorkshire coast, British-Petroleum announced yesterday. (M S., 1966)

25 More light was shed yesterday on the effects of CS gas, which was claimed by Pentagon to be virtually harmless to health and was therefore to be recommended for use in war by soldiers — or in peace by the police. The latest information comes from U. S. Army studies, showing the gas to produce burns and blisters. The Morning Star has campaigned consistently to have this gas banned for use by either Army or police (M. S., 1970)

26. "The weather report promises heavy snow moving in from the west," he said. It will be here by evening, so I'm going to New York today. By tomorrow we may be snowed in. (Ph. A Whitney. The Winter People)

27. Mutiny Charge Two black marines, George Daniels and Lance-cor­poral William Harvey, were court-martial led for making anti-war statements during a talk-in session and sen­tenced to ten and six years respectively. (M. S., 1970)

28. It was not until he had received his apology that our touchy friend would suffer himself to be appeased. (A. Conan Doyle, The Lost World)

29. The ancient Phoenician city of Sarepta has been unearthed on the coast of Lebanon. It is the first home city of sea faring colonizers of the Iron Age to be uncovered by archeologists. The find will prove extremely significant in casting light on the culture of the traders who are credited with transmitting the alphabet from the Middle East to the Western World. (M. N., 1970)

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