Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Government has reasons for changing its policy. According to U.S. officials, in the last year some 5,000 persons have entered the U.S. supposedly in transit, only to disappear. When they reappear, many have a complete set of forged papers, including birth certificates and passports. Not all are foreigners who merely wish to beat the immigration quotas. There is evidence that some have planned attacks on diplomats at the U.N. Representatives of any country with determined enemies are targeted for trouble: Israel, the Soviet Union, Egypt, Lebanon. Such is the ecumenical spirit of terrorism...
Baldwin's bitterness will not disappear by Dedication Day, although the entire design team plans to attend. He says the firm's relationship with the GSD hasn't improved, but professional pride in the building will draw him to Cambridge on October 12. Besides he wouldn't want to miss the reunion...
Where do '50s aspirations go when the '50s disappear? One may as well ask where all the poodles go when Yorkshires become the fashion. A snowfall on Second Avenue during a college visit is apparently enough to send some girls to the city. Why they stay can be a matter of tortuous rationalization. "I consciously seek out weird and interesting places - gay bars, lesbian bars," says one who has been at it 18 years...
...hand. It is too easily forgotten now that a lively era of negotiations-centering around, among other things, the Big Four summit in Geneva, the Bandung Conference, the Re-packi Plan for reduction of forces in Europe-flourished after the Korean armistice during the 1950s, only to disappear in a renewal of the cold...
...Sprague's most celebrated cases occurred in 1961, when he decided to prosecute a man for the first-degree murder of his wife even though no body, no blood, no physical evidence of violence was ever found. Sprague argued that no woman would willingly disappear without taking her bridgework, her clothes and cosmetics...