Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon intelligence looked bad once the operation began. The Pentagon claimed at one point that up to 1,100 Cubans were actually on the island and at least 600 of them were professional soldiers. But it then conceded that Havana's assertion that 784 were there might be correct...
...almost independent principality within the American Government, said that King was associating with Communists. Kennedy and his brother Bobby, then Attorney General, allowed the wiretaps of King 1) to clear King's name and thus disarm Hoover, 2) to see for themselves whether Hoover's suspicions were correct, or 3) both. They did not, however, authorize the bugging that amounted to a much broader invasion of King's privacy...
...allies for use against "resistance fighters" in those areas of the world. In addition, the U.S. government has reports from members of the Hmong tribe in Laos who claim to have seen this chemical dropped in the form of "yellow rain" from airplanes. If these charges are correct, the Soviet Union would be in violation of two international treaties, made in 1925 and 1972. Last spring, Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences, challenged the State Department's evidence and conclusions, claiming yellow rain to be merely bee excrement...
What ridiculous suggestions! But so is the suggestion to raise the drinking age to 21, The way to correct trouble is not to penalize all people the vast majority of above are non-troublemakers. The way to correct trouble is to penalize wrongdoers, and to prevent them from their wrong doing...
...Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) stayed in the March coalition and worked to keep the visibility of anti-Israel sentiment to a minimum. At the same time, it helped bring B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Congress around to endorsing the March. This is the correct position for Jewish groups: to work within left-wing coalitions, influencing and convincing others. By isolating themselves in a hyper-critical stance. Jews can only bring upon themselves the image of a self-interested and single-issue pressure group. By working on the inside, the UAHC prevented the March from being...