Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Judge, a field worker for the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, said the movement to revive the draft is being hidden by the Defense Department. "They tell us we're going to have a registration and not a draft.' Do you get dressed up and not go out?" Judge asked the protesters...
...former director of the Central Intelligence Agency told his Boston followers he would be "a national candidate, not a factional one and not a regional...
...some areas, bad in others. A prominent consumer of CIA reports on Capitol Hill gives the agency an over-all grade of Cminus. The agency gets pretty good marks for its reporting on Russia and China, and it feels it has stayed on top of developments in turbulent Central America. In Iran, on the other hand, it was embarrassingly inept. Says Birch Bayh, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "Technologically, it's unbelievable what we have the capacity to do. Our weakness is what we do with the information when we get it. We know the number...
...Jain community is a very rich community in India, rather like the Jews here. They are governing all walks of life in business, in advocacy, in politics. In Boston, too, I have students who are doctors and lawyers. So they are luxuriant, but their life is governed by the central principles. What you need, you have, but the less you need, the more you are. That's the main principle. And you don't become a slave to the things...
...Power and the Glory" Ochs claimed, "was the best song I will ever write." It wasn't, but it expressed his life's central theme: an abiding love for the United States and a lifelong hatred for the repression perpetrated in its name...