Word: documental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First encyclicals usually reveal what a Pope intends to do but they are rarely as memorable as those they issue later on. Nevertheless John Paul's Redemptor Hominis (Redeemer of Man) is a bold document that asserts religion's role as the conscience of the modern world, places Christ and individual man at the center of history and saves its sharpest language to criticize the dehumanizing excesses of modern political and economic systems, capitalist and Communist alike...
...Oklahoma and crumpled against a culvert. Its sole occupant lay dead, surrounded by a litter of papers she had been carrying. Karen Silkwood, 28, a lab technician in a plant producing fuel rods for nuclear reactors, had been driving to meet a New York Times reporter. She hoped to document her charges that officials at the installation, owned by the Kerr-McGee Corp., had continually and carelessly exposed their employees to one of the world's most dangerous metals: plutonium. But after the car was towed from the ditch, the papers could not be found...
...document to which she referred, in fact, is not a Senate Report nor is it a report of a Senate subcommittee. It is no more than a Committee Print which reports to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations the individual views of former Senator Clark. "The views expressed in this study are my own," the Senator says in the introduction, "and are not necessarily the views of other members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...former Senator Clark's findings are correct, nor perhaps do more than 90 per cent of those who heard Professor Nolan at the Faculty meeting and on the live radio broadcast of that meeting. This being the case, it is misleading for Professor Nolan to have given this document more standing than it deserves, more standing than its author claims for it. Arthur Maass Professor of Government
When Toai reached Paris in late 1977, he brought with him a document with what he asserted to be the signatures of 48 other political prisoners, many of them former NLF members, detailing the oppression in Vietnamese prisons and urging international condemnation of the Hanoi government. A number of groups in France and Canada, where Toai travelled before reaching the U.S., have contested the authenticity of the document, which Toai says he circulated secretly through Vietnamese prisons...