Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting of the 43-nation Organization of African Unity is scheduled to be held next month in Kampala, and Amin, as the host, desperately wants it to be a success. Last week the government of Botswana announced that it would boycott the Kampala meeting because of Amin's "disregard for the sanctity of human life." Several other member states, possibly including Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia, may do the same...
...Vermont, on 800 acres, featuring Doc Watson, the world's premier flatpicker, with his son Merle, presumably doing "Tennessee Stud" like nobody can, and Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers. Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys, plus a lot of fine New England bluegrass bands. Disregard all reports of the New Riders' appearance as bogus. Call 802-863-3616 for information and campsite reservation...
...York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey exploded in wrath, largely because the state government now faces enormous pressure to bail out the impecunious city. He wildly criticized the President for displaying a "level of arrogance and disregard for New York that rivals the worst days of Richard Nixon and his gang of cutthroats." Varying the analogy, he added: "We didn't even get 30 pieces of silver." But Ford argued persuasively that he was acting in the best interests of New York. In his "Dear Abe" letter of rejection, the President wrote that lending money to the city...
...evidence of malfeasance in the American conduct of the Indochina war. Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre invited the American government to send representatives to state its case to the tribunal, but the Johnson administration chose not to respond to the invitation. Pressed by reporters to explain the administration's disregard for Russell's efforts, secretary of state Dean Rusk replied that he had no intention of "playing games with a 94-year-old Briton." By the end of the tribunal's first two sessions, the United States had been indicted in absentia for crimes against peace, crimes...
...early 1971, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War began its Winter Soldier Investigations, an inquiry into American war crimes in Indochina. A VVAW panel took testimony from nearly 100 veterans of the U.S. war effort, and compiled an impressive record of military disregard for life and the rules...