Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watergate am Rhine. The quest for the answer exploded last week in a Watergate-style scandal that aroused deep-seated German concern other than that of nuclear annihilation. The weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel disclosed that agents of the Verfassungsschutz (federal office for the protection of the constitution) had broken into Traube's home near Cologne last year, photographed his letters and documents and planted a bugging device. After failing to discover any guilt in his associations, the agents surreptitiously entered Traube's house a second time two months later to remove the bug. These legally questionable acts evoked...
...charges are grossly exaggerated. Many campesinos, they explain, have not been killed, but simply fled their homes to avoid the fighting. U.S. Ambassador James Theberge, however, takes the reports seriously: "We have reason to believe that some of the allegations of human rights violations are accurate, and our concern has been made clear to the Nicaraguan government on various occasions in the past year...
Critics of the Somoza family's corrupt, baronial, four-decade reign hope that the Carter Administration will make that concern more explicit. Says a leading opposition member: "Nicaragua is a case where Carter can show that his advocacy of human rights is not just words. That is why Somoza is so nervous." Should the Administration choose to act, it has substantial leverage. Nicaragua's National Guard relies on U.S. weapons and is scheduled to receive $2.5 million in military sales credits in fiscal 1977. Loss of that aid is something that the American-trained Tachito Somoza (West Point...
...signs and chanted union slogans. At the meeting, several former Stevens workers accused the company of firing them for union activity. Many Roman Catholic nuns and priests and Methodist ministers, members of five religious organizations that had bought shares of Stevens stock in order to have a voice, expressed concern about the company's labor policies. Old civil rights activists banded together as Southerners for Economic Justice joined the fray. Said Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., to Stevens Chairman James D. Finley: "I come before you as an American intolerant of injustice...
...solid realization of the minor-league ambience?plasticized motels and bars, dreary arenas, the grubby team bus?and the brisk, vivid sketches of recognizable jock types with which he and Screenwriter Dowd* have peopled the Chiefs. Unquestionably, the film makers are at tempting a valid moral statement. Their concern is not merely with the decline of hockey from artful sport into blood spectacle, but also with the general tendency of pop cultural enterprise to go for the vulgar and the sensational, then to avoid responsibility by claiming to give the public what it wants...