Word: documented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter set out aboard Air Force One for Caracas last week, aides passed out a two-page memo to the 170 reporters who accompanied him aboard two chartered planes. Entitled "Health Advisory for Presidential Trip," the document warned them about dread diseases, from dysentery to yellow fever, that they might encounter on the seven-day, 15,000-mile journey to four countries. The statement also cautioned them about "treacherous, steep drop-offs" on the road between Caracas and the airport, the undertow off Rio de Janeiro's beaches, bad drinking water in Nigeria and poisonous mamba snakes...
...sides sought to reap political advantage from the assassination. South African officials charged that SWAPO had killed the black leader as part of an assassination campaign, and alluded to a "captured document" that purportedly included plans to kill opposition black leaders in Namibia. In Zambia last week, SWAPO Leader Sam Nujoma, who at one time studied English under Kapuuo, denied that his organization had had anything to do with the killing. The murder, he suggested, might well have been the work of South African provocateurs...
...alternatives. The adversary system works better than anything else available." Nonetheless, bar officials realize that the system requires improvement. In an effort to make it function better, a blue-ribbon committee of the A.B.A. is currently revising the 1969 Code of Professional Responsibility. A vague, well-meaning document, the code provides few clear-cut answers to the problems facing the modern legal profession. A.B.A. President William Spann asks, for example, "Is the lawyer obligated to blow the whistle on a client who ignores his legal advice and violates the law?" The answer is muddy under the current code, but most...
...entitled autobiography A Sort of Life, Graham Greene tells the story of how as a saturnine undergraduate he played Russian roulette with a loaded revolver--to see whether life would seem any more worth living after risking its permanent loss. Greene survived, and has written some 20 novels to document that survival. Yet some 60 years and five or six continents later, the characters in his books still muddle on, oppressed by this same unshakeable world-weariness. They find themselves in the thick of Third World liberation struggles, but somehow never take the politics seriously. They fall in love...
...that the disaster has receded, quite a few of the hardy Rhode Islanders are having second thoughts about taking handouts from Uncle Sam. Some 250 people who received written authorization have either returned the document or refunded the value of the stamps they used. Says Thomas Marcello, an overseer of the program in Providence: "We had a return of over $13,000. and returns are still straggling...