Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While events abroad dominated the headlines, the budding civil rights movement was a growing domestic concern. On campus, that concern seemed barely visible, though some students joined Cambridge residents in boycotting a local Woolworth's store in 1960 because of its discriminatory hiring practices...
...spokesman: "We expect there will be additional arrests in this matter." Agents have questioned John Walker's half brother, a Navy enlisted man, but no charges have been brought against him. Interviewed at the Baltimore city jail by a reporter for the Norfolk daily Virginian-Pilot, John Walker expressed concern that his arrest might cause trouble for his family and others, but demonstrated a curious bravado about his own fate. Said he: "I'm a celebrity...
...Washington and elsewhere, nonproliferation experts are concerned over an erosion of confidence in the inspection apparatus of the International Atomic Energy Agency; the system is designed to monitor adherence to nonproliferation standards. The concern focuses on the "safeguards" sponsored by the I.A.E.A. to detect the diversion of peaceful atomic technology to bomb-making purposes. Some experts fear that the safeguard scheme is inadequate to the task at hand, while others are worried that the lack of confidence can itself lead to further weakening of an inspection system that in large measure functions on a basis of trust...
...agreement with France was signed in 1976. About two years later, under pressure from Washington that was in turn inspired by growing congressional concern, the French decided to stop work on the reprocessing project. By that time, however, Pakistan had reportedly obtained blueprints covering up to 95% of the project, and some French firms apparently continued to give quiet assistance to the effort until the end of 1979. Pakistan has continued to work on the plant, but no completion date can be predicted...
...concern had little to do with the numbers involved. Israel had released around 4,481 Egyptian POWs after the Six-Day War in exchange for eleven Israelis, and in November 1983 had traded 4,500 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners for six of its own. The problem this time was that the freed Arabs included 167 prisoners who had been convicted of involvement in terrorist acts in which Israelis had been killed. Furthermore, almost half of those released were being permitted to return to their homes in Israel or the occupied territories. Among those released was Ahmed Zmurid, who had been...