Word: claiming
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Those who find inner peace listening to Dead music will rush away on this film, for it features the group at its performing best. Rumor has it that the Dead have never given a poor performance, and this film seems to legitimate that claim. Some of the best tunes--"Sugar Magnolia," "Playin' in the Band," "U.S. Blues," and the immortal "One More Saturday Night," are included in the film...
...scarce resource, although heavy rains in western Washington last week forced the evacuation of thousands. Water is competed for by fishing interests, farmers and the builders of power plants. The water that cools the nuclear reactors comes from nearby rivers and is later returned to them warm. Environmentalists claim that the warm water can disrupt the ecology of a stream. They are stubbornly fighting a plan to build two large nuclear plants on the shores of the Skagit River, campaigning to have a 59-mile stretch of it protected from any kind of development under the federal Wild and Scenic...
What the committee members want most is to see claims of paranormal phenomena subjected to the same standards of proof that would be required for any other scientific discovery. Says Lee Nisbet, the committee's executive director: "If we did turn up evidence that a claim was correct, we'd be fools not to get very excited about...
...Washington could claim to have foreseen, much less suggested, Sadat's spectacular gesture. Word of his willingness to go to Jerusalem caught the Administration utterly by surprise. When Sadat stepped on the podium in the Knesset to deliver his speech, Jimmy Carter's chief troubleshooter for the Middle East, Cyrus Vance, was airborne at 30,000 ft. off the coast of South Carolina heading for a long-scheduled visit to Argentina...
...Golan Heights. Israel has no legal claim to this occupied area. It would withdraw its troops, dismantle the 26 settlements erected in the territory since 1967 and restore sovereignty to Syria. The Israelis rightfully protest that before the Six-Day War, Syrian forces on the Heights bombarded civilian kibbutzim in the Hula Valley and along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Thus, in exchange for Israeli withdrawal, the Heights must be declared a demilitarized zone subject to inspection by international patrols reinforced by Israeli and Syrian inspection teams...