Word: discussed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday, 9:45 a.m. It develops that they can also do Walter Cronkite and Howard K. Smith. Dressed in jeans or slacks, sneakers or penniless loafers, they exude information as they discuss conference topics: this morning it's the Quality of Life, this afternoon Education, tomorrow Leadership and Community Involvement. Soft-spoken Ralph Shain of Bellaire, Texas: "If you want to talk about coal gasification, the Federal Government hasn't yet licensed a single plant." Dark-eyed Patti Anderson of Granby, Colo.: "The population of the underdeveloped countries will double in 20 years, but they...
Three Mile Island also comes at a time of renewed interest in the case of Karen Silkwood, who was killed in 1974 when her car ran off a road as she was on her way to meet with a reporter to discuss the unsafe handling of highly radioactive plutonium at a Kerr-McGee Corp. plant in Oklahoma. The trial in an $11.5 million suit filed by Silkwood's family against the company is now under way in Oklahoma City...
...Saudis also tried to play a moderating role, with only limited success, at the meeting of Arab states in Baghdad last week to discuss what action to take against Egypt, the U.S. or Israel after the treaty signing. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud remained impassive as the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat argued for an economic boycott of both Egypt and the U.S. Declared Arafat: "l don't just want to cut off the tail of the snake, I want to crush its head. The U.S. is the head and Sadat the tail...
Barbara B. Levy, a spokesman for the faculty union, said the faculty "is willing to discuss issues which may be clarified, but reworking terms of the agreement--that's out of the question...
...appears dead. Opinion pages in recent issues of the Independent range from the gold mine crimes of Charles Engelhard to the true definition of a "liberal arts education." The Harvard Gazette recently asked some of Harvard's "wise men and women" (Harvard professors) to discuss the important issues of 1979. Not one mentioned food...