Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turner, the committee will include the Vice President; the Secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense; the National Security Adviser; and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Special Coordination Committee, chaired by Brzezinski, includes the members of the NSC, along with other senior officials who are chosen to attend. It will be responsible for special intelligence operations, thus sharing with the President the supervision of all sensitive covert activities carried...
...police, successively, the CHEKA, GPU, OGPU, GUCB/NKVD and MGB, the KGB'S forerunner. Today the agency has a force of 300,000 men under arms to guard Soviet borders, as well as a corps of customs agents. Intourist too works closely with the KGB; tourist guides can steer chosen visitors to restaurants that have hidden microphones...
...Peking's peacemaking efforts have fallen flat. Chou's widow, a Long March veteran and party heroine, was chosen to lead a high-level Chinese delegation to Cambodia because of her pervasive prestige. Her mission was to persuade Premier Pol Pot to negotiate a settlement with Hanoi, but she failed. Though received with due pomp in Phnom-Penh, she was soon whisked out to view the 12th century ruins at Angkor Wat and otherwise kept occupied. After four days she reportedly cut short her visit and went home. Though her hosts may not have been paying much attention...
...received the Golden Globe award for best actor in a comedy or musical from the Foreign Press last week in addition to having been chosen best actor by the Theater Owners of America West...
...opinions of the Jewish priestly writers and Paul, who were "conditioned by time and place." Consequently, their logic runs, such teachings are not direct revelation from God and modern Christians are free to change their views. If homosexuals evidence Christian virtues, "we are led to believe that God has chosen to redeem and sanctify these particular persons within the framework of their homosexual condition...