Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sara Medina. Reported by Bernard Diederich/San Salvador
...route. The board of the Island Trees Union Free School District on Long Island, N.Y., in a case still being contested by former students in court, banned eleven books as "anti-American, antiChristian, anti-Semitic and just plain filthy." Later they discovered that the banished included two Pulitzer prizewinners: Bernard Malamud's The Fixer and Oliver La Farge's Laughing Boy. For censors to ban books they have never read is commonplace. For them to deny that they are censoring is even more so. Said Attorney George W. Lipp Jr., announcing plans to continue the legal fight...
Harris and his boss, Bernard D. Rostker, may soon be making paper airplanes with all of their registration cards, however, if Ronald Reagan follows through on his campaign vow to eliminate registration--a program he has called "a meaningless gesture." Reagan has not clarified his plans for Selective Service since the election...
...that end, a group of U.S. physicians, headed by Harvard Cardiologists Bernard Lown and James Muller, has organized International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Inc. They have recruited several eminent Americans, including Jonas Salk and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith. They also got a strong endorsement from Chazov, who wrote: "The medical profession should more actively protest against the senseless policy of increasing arsenals of thermonuclear arms...
...places, the book is loaded with trivia like one of those accounts that emerges 96 hours after an event--"Rescue at Entebbe," perhaps. "Good afternoon, Hertz." "Uh, yes, this is Bernard Weiss of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Bethesda. There is a congressional delegation traveling to Harrisburg this afternoon. They'll need several cars waiting at the airport. Can you help me?" "I'm sorry sir. We have no cars available in Harrisburg...