Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretense that Moscow did not abandon is its claim that the U.S. is the persecutor of dissidents. It awarded the Lenin Peace Prize to Communist Angela Davis, a onetime activist who now lectures at San Francisco State University on ethnic and women's studies. Davis, told reporters that publicity about Soviet dissidents was "a smokescreen to prevent Americans from understanding oppression at home...
...opening day, Talmadge led off by delivering an angrily worded statement. With the air of a wounded lion determined to fight off encircling vultures, Talmadge denounced Minchew as "a proven liar, cheat and embezzler." Minchew has admitted receiving money from the bank account, but claimed he was simply being reimbursed for money he spent-for the Senator. Talmadge said that if he had committed the offenses he was accused of, he would be dimwitted, and the Senator added: "Even my enemies don't claim that I'm that stupid...
...police claim that Soto, a high school student who had no police record, and Rosado, who had been charged earlier with illegal possession of firearms, belonged to the Movimiento Armado Revolucionario, a tiny radical cell with no ties to the mainstream political parties. One of the group's five members, Alejandro González Malavé, 21, was an undercover agent for the police. He and the two youths stopped a cab on the outskirts of Ponce last July 25. At gunpoint they forced the driver, Julio Ortiz Molina, to take them up a remote mountain road...
...general family audience "between 7 and 9 p.m. Cowan tries to use the lawsuit as the background for a discussion of censorship on television and the unique problems the medium faces. But he gets lost in a series of meetings that could give the Civil Service justifiable cause to claim the D.C. bureaucracy is "lean." The problem with See No Evil is the author's approach. Trying desperately to write what he calls a "dramatic narrative" of the events, Cowan lapses into description of events that no judge could fault for being incomplete. Awkwardly referring to his own role...
...third dual meet in a row, Posey Bryan broke her own record in the 400, lowering it to 1:00.0. However, she was only able to claim second place as Springfield's Jo-Ann Fortier set a new Harvard Stadium record with a blazing...