Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STRONGEST argument advanced against a Helms trial drew heavily on the complications resulting from efforts by Helms' counsel to subpoena sensitive national security documents to use in the courtroom proceedings, a move that might have forced prosecutors to dismiss the case in midtrial. This contention, however, does not bear up under close scrutiny. All requested materials of this nature would have been referred directly to the trial judge, who would have determined each document's relevance. Handing over this weighty responsibility to a presumably independent judge unhindered by political considerations would have proven to be the wisest move, especially...
...standing ovation from his colleagues and from the overflowing galleries continued while Hubert Humphrey moved vigorously around the chamber, greeting friends, among them a number of onetime adversaries, with handshakes and bear hugs. There were warm reunions with Bob Byrd, who beat him out for the post of majority leader only last January; Ted Kennedy, who fought him on behalf of his brothers; Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists in a protest at the 1948 Democratic Convention after upstart Humphrey, a mere 37 and mayor of Minneapolis, issued a clarion call for civil rights. "The greatest gift of life is friendship...
...billion annually. If Egyptians were forced to pay nonsubsi-dized prices, Sadat might be ousted by a repetition of the food riots that rocked Cairo last January. With his we-won't-pay announcement to the Russians, Sadat is reminding Western creditors that they either have to bear a burden or risk losing a friend...
...Although he regularly cursed his own bravado, Herr made a point of being wherever the action was hottest, convinced that the war's "secret history" must exist there: "Somewhere on the periphery of that total Viet Nam issue whose daily reports made the morning papers too heavy to bear, lost in the surreal contexts of television, there was a story that was as simple as it had always been, men hunting men. a hideous war and all kinds of victims...
...Stop the World I Want to Get Off, opening tonight at Mather House, feels: he watches his life pass from inside a circus arena. Littlechap travels to Russia, to Germany, to success in America at the top of a company; he becomes deeply involved with four women who bear a strange resemblance to each other. But instead of finding happiness at the end of his journey, Littlechap realizes that he has never really loved anyone but himself. Director Debbie Solomon '80 says she wants to emphasize the "light, allegorical comment on life" offered by this musical comedy that...