Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone who worked on the story would make that claim-or, some would say, that confession. A few years ago, for example, Chicago Correspondent Richard Woodbury, who reported on the move to the countryside in the Midwest, fled his native New York for the open skies of Colorado, where he worked on a small newspaper in the remote city of Grand Junction. Woodbury returns there frequently when Windy City life begins to pall. In the same spirit, Manhattan-based Reporter-Researcher Sarah Button regularly retreats to her family home, a farm in Delaware. For Reporter-Researchers Peggy Berman and Susanne...
...work for repeal. Just two weeks ago, he told a liberal Harvard Law School audience that he was against gun control. "I know I'm going to lose some of you on that one, but that's where I am." Then he added, "I don't claim total courage; I don't claim total wisdom." The hall exploded with applause...
...though Machel had warned that such incursions into Mozambique's territory would be considered an act of war. According to Machel, Rhodesian jets strafed the border village of Pafuri, killing seven Mozambican civilians and two soldiers. He said that Mozambique had shot down two of the planes, a claim Rhodesia did not deny...
...Communists have deliberately tried to make themselves appealing to a wider spectrum of voters. The Italian and French parties have explicitly disavowed the old Marxian dogma of a dictatorship of the proletariat as well as the need for violent revolution. Instead, they claim to be committed to such democratic principles as political pluralism and freedom of speech and religion. Italian Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer-perhaps Western Europe's most articulate advocate of "socialism with a human face"-has often proclaimed his commitment to "a pluralistic and democratic system." He most recently and dramatically reaffirmed this in Moscow...
Canadians who wanted one of their own countrymen to open the Olympic Games this summer have been grumbling ever since their government tapped Britain's Queen Elizabeth for the honor. Now, at least, they can claim victory in a minor skirmish over the Queen's visit. It seems that the royal yacht Britannia, which will carry Her Majesty to Montreal, has old-style lavatories that empty directly into the waves. Royal flush or no, that is a violation of the St. Lawrence Seaway's antipollution laws, ruled Canada's Ministry of Transport. Denying the Royal Navy...