Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return from Cuba, Senator Church [Aug. 22] stated that his host Fidel Castro was a man of "dignity" with "a great sense of justice." I would like to ask the Senator how he defines dignity and justice in the case of a man who keeps his people under constant surveillance, has thousands of political prisoners tortured, and sentences countless others to be shot by firing squads merely because they dare to disagree with his policies...
...guard the Latin American leaders, most of the military strongmen, thousands of security agents and local police were mobilized. Helicopters and sharpshooters positioned on rooftops kept constant watch. There were raucous right-wing demonstrations against the treaty and left-wing protests against the Latin American leaders, but they were kept under control. Bomb threats emptied the Washington Monument and several downtown buildings, however, and two bombs went off, one at the Soviet Aeroflot offices and another 100 yds from the White House. Anti-Castro Cubans claimed responsibility, though Fidel was not in town (Cuba was excluded from the Organization...
...Chicago Correspondent Robert Wurmstedt, once a Peace Corps volunteer, reports: "The poverty in the black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods on the West Side of Chicago is worse than any poverty I saw in West Africa. The people there are guided by strong traditional values. They do not live in constant fear of violence, vermin and fire. You don't find the same sense of desperation and hopelessness you find in the American ghetto...
...Geneva Conference on Middle East peace, which was recessed in 1974, has since assumed the mystique of some diplomatic Camelot: in Geneva, some day, somehow, Israelis and Arabs will shake hands, sit down together and hammer out a permanent agreement ending 29 years of constant tension and frequent all-out war. That vision had taken hold in many capitals, notably Washington. But last week, as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance concluded his eleven-day swing through six Middle East states,* a Geneva Conference was clearly impossible by October, highly unlikely any time in 1977, and in general seemed more remote...
...teams line up, you go to the play-by-play man"); yet it is he who stuffed the Monday night booth with three garrulous commentators, with only the play-by-play man, Frank Gifford, concentrating on the game, straining to interrupt Cosell's anecdotes, disputatious opinions and constant hype of himself and of coming ABC promotions. Arledge feels no need to take a viewers' survey of the matter: "Everybody hates Cosell. But he's a catalyst and makes stars out of everyone he's with-Don Meredith, Eddie Arcaro, Alex Karras-by making them speak honestly...