Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attraction for young men and women of college age or less during their formative years, when they should be gaining the education and experiences upon which to build their future lives. The use of the drug allows them to avoid the resolution of their underlying problems rather than to confront them realistically. While marijuana is not physically addictive in the sense that heroin is, it can cause psychological dependence." Moreover, "although no definitive link of efficient causality can be demonstrated with scientific exactness at present, the coincidence between addiction to 'hard' narcotics, crime and promiscuity is too great...
...liver. Each man has only one, and cannot live without it. The world's pioneer in transplanting livers, Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Colorado, has obtained 15 so far, with encouraging results in four recent operations on little girls (TIME, Dec. 1). Comparable problems of supply confront the University of Minnesota's Dr. Richard C. Lillehei, who has transplanted the pancreas with duodenum attached, and an almost complete intestinal tract...
...Ankara called for war with Greece and an invasion of Cyprus, Turkish troops streamed toward embarkation ports near Cyprus or ferried westward across the Bosporus to take up positions along the Greek border. In response, long columns of olive-drab Greek tanks clattered across the Thracian plain to confront the Turks. Thus last week Turkey and Greece, uneasy allies in NATO, came to the very brink of war over the long-troubled island of Cyprus. Diplomacy temporarily headed off a major conflict, but the two nations continued glaring at each other down the barrels of their U.S.-made guns...
...seems that back in 1963 a special study group was formed by a shadowy U.S. Government agency to determine "the nature of the problems that would confront the U.S. if and when a condition of 'permanent peace' should arrive." It seems that the 15-man group, including sociologists, scientists and a professional war planner, began meeting at a place called Iron Mountain, N.Y.* it seems that after three years and dozens of meetings, the group produced a report declaring that peace is undesirable and that war is not only here to stay but is vastly unappreciated...
...national-security implications raised by the Jenkins affair, since a Governor's office is unlikely to have any national secrets worth worrying about. The upshot was to cast doubt both on Reagan's credibility and his tactical skill in dealing with the difficult situations that inevitably confront a major league politician...