Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public opposition to U.S. policy in Viet Nam developed, the dissidents were deprived both of essential information-which the Government said it alone possessed and could not release for reasons of security-and of a respectable Establishment figure to rally around. Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Weisband and Franck claim, was one of the insiders long tortured by doubts about the war. If he had resigned and openly turned against U.S. Viet Nam policy the formidable mental powers that he had originally used to analyze the war, the fighting might have ended far sooner...
...stratosphere that protects earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays (TIME, Oct. 7). The state legislature banned the sale after March 1, 1977, of aerosol cans that use chlorofluorocarbon compounds as propellants-mainly hair sprays, oven cleaners, insecticides and deodorants. Opponents of the measure claim that there is no hard evidence that the chlorofluorocarbons actually damage the ozone layer. But the Oregon lawmakers preferred not to wait for final proof, and the bill is expected to be signed by Governor Robert W. Straub...
...wasn't too tough though: when Harvard crossed the finish line at Bartlett's Cove in the time of 22:07 it had to wait some 42 seconds before it could claim the blue and white Bulldog racing shirts...
...means of identification. In fact, identification is sometimes so difficult that police have occasionally been forced to return diamonds to a known thief because there was no proof that they were stolen goods. Now, Israeli scientists think they have solved the gem identity crisis with a system that they claim is as infallible as fingerprinting...
Some of the demonstrators, who claim to live in homes slated for demolition to make room for the proposed $48-million power plant, said they object to recently received eviction notices sent out by Harvard, the Landlord of the properties...