Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become clear until the Security Council resumes debate this week. In any case, Shultz pointed out some other obstacles to deployment of a U.N. force. Said he: "A significant U.N. role presupposes a return of stability, a balance of forces and some measure of political accord." In other words, creation of a U.N. peace-keeping force presumes there will be a peace for it to keep, and in Lebanon that is about the shakiest assumption anyone can make...
...Turco, O.B. Toon, T.P. Ackerman, J.B. Pollack and Carl Sagan in a study entitled "Nuclear Winter Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions" (and referred to as TTAPS after the authors names), examine a previously ignored effect of nuclear detonations: the creation of dust and soot that can float in the middle and upper atmosphere for years. Isolated detonations the only kind we have witnessed in our experience with nuclear weapons to date do not generate enough dust and soot to create any long term atmospheric changes. But any nuclear war between the superpowers is likely to involve thousands of warheads...
...certainly won't put our troops on boats, to sit and watch the debacle from the balcony." Adding their voices to the general complaint, Italian officials announced that they too hope to withdraw their 1,200-member force from Beirut in favor of a U.N. contingent, even though creation of such a force would be unthinkable in the face of presumed Soviet opposition. In Rome, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti summoned U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb to ask pointedly what the U.S. naval bombardment in Lebanon was expected to achieve...
...Committee on African and Afro-American Studies to explore the academic and cultural needs of Black students. Headed by Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, the committee's final report expressed "the sense of urgency felt by the Committee and by our witnesses" and called not only for the creation of a degree-granting Afro-American Studies committee, but also for a "social and cultural center for black students...
...this somewhat speculative re-creation of the ancien régime is solidly based on Darnton's mastery of its most obscure documents. He has discovered, for example, that there was a police official who spent the years 1748 to 1753 writing more than 500 still unpublished dossiers covering virtually every writer in Paris. They included all those troublesome philosophes whose skeptical criticisms of the Bourbon monarchy contributed to its downfall, yet this diligent police analyst never used the term philosophes, never considered them as a group, never imagined that any writers could have political importance...