Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boat People and the Past...
...refugee from Nazism in the '30s, I thought the world was antiSemitic. Today, reading about the plight of the boat people [July 9], I know I was wrong. The world is not antiSemitic, it is inhumane...
...gives to this ever growing tragedy, the U.S. delegation was led by Vice President Walter Mondale. He condemned Viet Nam as the sole cause of the Indochina exodus, and reinforced President Carter's promise that the U.S. would begin naval and air operations to pick up thousands of "boat people" who have fled Viet Nam in overcrowded, unseaworthy vessels. One ranking U.S. official estimates that since last May 30,000 to 50,000 people have drowned each month in their attempts to escape. Mondale also said that the Administration would ask Congress for additional funds for refugee relief...
Tension between power centers is useful in America. But the judiciary ought to reflect about what it is doing. In important respects, judges really are in the same boat as journalists, and ultimately in the service of the same ideals. People who cheer the courts' moves against the press are quite ready to condemn the courts in other areas. If the press is seen as having too much power, so are the courts, and then some...
...Bond film, 007 gets his weapons from Q, that master of gadgets who provides Bond with something which you can bet 007 will use later on when all appears lost. Although one of these gadgets (a throbbing silver motor-boat with all the extras) is wasted on a chase scene with footage lifted from Live and Let Die, it nonetheless makes up for the obvious absence of the modified Ferrari which always seemed to be at 007's disposal throughout all his other films...