Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failing to face the essential moral question that begged to be raised throughout the days surrounding the event: What is wrong with a society that causes alienated, frustrated groups of people such as the members of MOVE to arise? If our society is as perfect as the Philadelphia notables claim it to be, then what fed the dissatisfaction and anomie that led MOVE to face self-destruction rather than to surrender to the dominant forces of their age? This question never appeared in all the dozens of articles and editorials that appeared after the shoot-out. Yet the greatest thinkers...
...Almost certainly there would be acts of vengeance by the Rhodesian armed forces, probably in the form of retaliatory raids against guerrilla camps in Zambia and Mozambique. Even many whites who had begun to seem receptive to the idea of eventual black rule in Rhodesia wondered, after hearing Nkomo claim responsibility for the air crash in a BBC interview, wondered anew whether there could be a political agreement with...
Though the U.S. inflation rate has slowed a bit from its double-digit pace of the second quarter-wholesale prices actually dropped a trifle in August-President Carter and his economic advisers are under no illusion that they can claim any credit. Quite the contrary: consumer prices for the year are likely to rise 8% or even more, and the Administration is feeling public fury. As S. Lee Kling, chief deputy to Anti-Inflation Czar Robert Strauss, told fellow policymakers on returning from a trip, "You guys wouldn't believe what's happening out there. They...
...furor raises complex, emotionally charged questions. Advocates of a U.S. economic pullout claim it could hasten the end of apartheid. But would it really? Most U.S. companies argue that they are helping South Africa's blacks by staying there and working for change. But are they doing enough...
Costa Rica denied the Nicaraguan claim, while Venezuela has not yet issued a statement...