Word: bona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Register initially invited President Carter and Senator Edward Kennedy but not Jerry Brown; the editors felt the California Governor was not mounting a serious challenge in Iowa. Protested Brown: "I'm troubled ... that in a free society I have to convince an editor that I'm a bona fide candidate." Nevertheless, Brown tried to do just that: he made several trips to the state, set up a campaign committee, met with the newspaper's editorial board and generally paid the Hawkeye State the kind of homage that the Register felt was fitting and proper. Last week...
...windowless cargo plane was a little tedious," says Scott of his journey, "but in 20 years as a TIME correspondent, few stories have proved more riveting." Since the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with Cambodia, Operation California agents had to arrange their mission with the Cambodian embassy in Moscow. "Bona fides was eventually established with help from the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia," Scott explains, "but a green light came only four days before we took...
...Government safety regulations more than 4,500 times in the past nine years.) In March the nuns asked Blue Diamond to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission so that the SEC would have to regulate it. The company refused, stating that the nuns had not been registered as bona fide stockholders. Now the nuns are going to court to force Blue Diamond to register them as the shareholders of record, so that they will be able to get a stockholders' list, which they plan to use to rally inside support for their cause...
...Resolution 242 of 1967, which implicitly affirms Israel's right to exist, and in addition endorse the Palestinians' legitimate political rights. The Arabs, and the Administration as well, hope that such a formulation might at last allow the P.L.O. to at least tacitly recognize Israel as a bona fide state. This in turn would enable Washington to drop its longstanding boycott of the P.L.O. and open a direct dialogue with it. The Administration's first goal then, would be to bring Palestinians, perhaps even some P.L.O. officials, into the talks between the Israelis and the Egyptians...
...lunar module (LEM--remember?), hesitated for a moment on the final rung, then placed the first human bootprint on another world. ("The surface appears to be very, very fine-grained," Armstrong observed while his friend "Buzz" waited to join him, "it's almost sort of a powder.") It was bona fide Big Stuff. CBS and provided 31 hours of continued coverage; ABC naturally stopped after 30. "Save us a copy," the astronauts radioed back, when informed that the New York Times had used the largest headline--"MEN WALK ON MOON"--in its history. Nine more moon landings were planned...