Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between the federal and local presence," says Louis Nunez, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. "Our society has left crime to local police. When should the Federal Government step in?" The answer is when local police and prosecutors fail to perform their duties in a color-blind way-and before such injustices arouse the equally outrageous resort to killing, looting and burning...
Throughout Washington, Idaho and Montana, officials cautioned motorists to stay off the roads except for emergencies because the passage of an auto stirs up clouds of dust that blind other drivers. Motorists also were advised to clean air and oil filters every 20 or 25 miles. Some drivers tied pantyhose over their cars' air filters to help keep out the dust. Nonetheless, insurance companies will soon be deluged with claims from the owners of countless autos whose windshields and finishes were pitted...
Last summer Muslim authorities seized an Anglican hospital and a school for blind children in Isfahan. Ever since then they have been intimidating churchmen to lead them to a supposedly missing cache of money...
...Hoover after the event, stressing, "I don't think you can possibly realize the good that was done here last night...You have contributed more than a dozen classes and a score of periodicals to the enlightening of the student mind on all-important question [sic]." Attached was a blind copy from Buckley of a letter he wrote to Simon suggesting that the Crimson president "exercise a little control over the flamboyance of some of your men." Buckley continued to send blind copies of his correspondence with Simon to FBI officials...
...formal statement by letter sent to The Crimson after The Nation article. Buckley, editor of the National Review, only states that the "principal point" of Diamond's Nation article was "its pointlessness." He also addresses a lesscentral point or two. First, on the evidence that he sent blind copies of his correspondence with the Crimson president to the FBI, Buckley notes unabashedly, "I sent (sic) blind copies of letters I write half of the time, usually to friends who I suspect would be interested." Second, he claims "I don't see any record for not keeping files on Congressmen...