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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the President's subordinates were given the word but were themselves too stupid to comprehend his meaning?" Gold asks rhetorically. Here is a rhetorical answer of sorts...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Critical Distinction | 4/25/1973 | See Source »

...Heisenberg Principle also suggests that rational science may be limited in its ability to comprehend nature; at best it can only arrive at certain statistical probabilities in determining, say, where an electron is at any given moment. the concept that the universe cannot be known by more definite methods that such "guesswork" was so revolutionary that even Einstein could no accept it. " God does not play dice with the universe," he insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT MAN-iv: Reaching Beyond the Rational | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...completely independent," Gill said yesterday. "Neither Harvard, MIT, the FBI nor the CIA could comprehend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jessie Gill's Story: Is It Fact or Fancy? | 4/12/1973 | See Source »

Gaddafi takes most of his ideas from the Koran. He still presents a copy of the holy book to official visitors. To the Ambassador from Czechoslovakia, he once remarked, "You cannot read this. You cannot comprehend it. But keep it by your side. It may help you to ask some questions." The Koran explains Gaddafi's loathing of drink: "With God's help I will stamp out alcohol in Libya, just as Mao stamped out another evil, opium, in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...minute speech delivered at the first session, Panama's "Leader of the Revolution," Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, assailed the U.S. in buchi, a back-country accent peculiar to Panama. "It is difficult to comprehend," he said, "how a country that has characterized itself as noncolonial insists on maintaining a colony in the heart of our country. Never will we add another star to the flag of the United States." Cuba's acerbic Foreign Affairs Minister Raúl Roa joined in with a tirade against the U.S. for "its perfidy and its claws." Communist China's Huang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: A Historic No | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

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