Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deliberately kept last week's celebration low-keyed. For one thing, he was well aware that former President Muhammad Ayub Khan had staged a lavish anniversary celebration in 1969, only to be forced from power three months later. For another, he recognized that he was under the strongest attack yet from his political opposition, which declared last Friday a nationwide "Black Day." The opposition's aim: to force Bhutto's resignation...
Then last September, a drifter named Kerry Lee "found God," as he put it, and confessed to police in South Carolina that he had committed the murder. With Albuquerque police none too anxious to attack their own original theory, Glazier and defense attorneys for the bikers went to South Carolina to get Lee's story. They confirmed that the murder gun, for example, had belonged to the father of Lee's girl friend. Though the district attorney persisted in backing his first charge, a judge last week finally quashed the murder indictments and turned the bikers loose. "Sure...
Died. Theodosius Dobzhansky, 75, Russian-born geneticist whose work at U.S. universities and research institutes earned world acclaim; of a heart attack; in Davis, Calif. Dobzhansky, who came to the U.S. as a student and chose to remain when the spurious environmental doctrines of Stalin's pet geneticist, T.D. Lysenko, became Communist dogma, was best known for works such as Genetic Diversity and Human Equality and Heredity and the Nature...
...Bank has currently earmarked $1 billion for projects to aid the rural poor. The First World could also underwrite the cost of bringing new lands under the plow. Huge areas of Africa are suitable for livestock ranching but cannot be developed until money is available to eliminate diseases that attack both cattle and herders. Also badly needed: improved food-storage systems to prevent the massive destruction of grains by rot, insects, rodents and monkeys. In Calcutta, in fact, up to 30% of the stored grain is devoured by mice and other pests...
Similarly, the council criticized attacks on human rights in Asian and Latin American nations but failed to attack repression of liberties in either the Soviet Union or several nations of Black Africa. In fact, the delegates were forced to face the question of Soviet repression principally by a gutsy Nairobi-based Christian newspaper, Target, which printed a smuggled plea to the World Council from Moscow Priest Gleb Yakunin and Layman Lev Regelson. The pair complained that the council had made no protest when "the Russian Orthodox Church was half destroyed" in the early 1960s, and pleaded for a crusade against...