Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article "The New American Samaritans" [Dec. 27] helped to redeem the sadly faded images of "charity" and "doing good" from their demise at the hands of cynics, ego-trippers and radicals of both right and left...
...fellas, it's real nice of you to give us back the right to our Jewish city of Jerusalem [Dec. 27]! We're glad you're big enough to swallow your doubts and to tell the world you think Jews are fit to govern a city that's had a Jewish majority for the last 100 years...
...recall the statement issued by the State Department upon the outbreak of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, saying that it was "neutral in thought, word and deed." Perhaps one could rephrase this now, with regard to the India-Pakistan conflict [Dec. 20], as being "blundering in word, guilty in deed and innocent of thought." How many more such idiotic policies will it take before the rest of the world loses all remaining faith in the U.S. sense of justice and honor...
...content merely to set a new National Basketball Association record with 21 consecutive wins (TIME, Dec. 27), the Lakers have since done dramatically more than is necessary. When the Philadelphia 76ers threatened them with a 132-point outburst, the Lakers countered with 154, setting a new N.B.A. high for the season. Then they outscored the Baltimore Bullets 34 to 18 in one quarter, to win their 27th game in a row, breaking a U.S. major-league sports mark set by baseball's New York Giants in 1916. Last week the Lakers won three more games, to run their unbeaten...
...Dec. 19, 1968, police found the bodies of an elderly couple, Joseph and Isabelle Diosdado, in the back room of their feed store in Compton, Calif. Each had been shot twice, and the cash register was empty. Eight weeks later, following up an informant's tip, police officers arrested Bozzie Bryant Burton III, then 16. Young Burton asked to talk to his father, an auto-plant inspector who was already at the station in search of his son, but the police refused. They did advise him, however, of his right to remain silent and to consult an attorney...