Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crusading campus journalists: the phrase seems an echo from the dawn of the 1970s, when liberal young men and women in weathered jeans and lumberjack flannels would rail impassionedly at college deans and Uncle Sam for supposed indifference to the will of the people. In the years since, campuses all but fell silent. Now students are crusading again, attacking the same ready targets but from a diametrically opposite direction: the right...
Other U.S. allies echo Kosciusko-Morizet's view that the organization, no matter how troubled it may be, still serves a purpose. Says a Bonn-based diplomat: "We do not underestimate the U.N.'s value as a peace-keeping force. We would not have had 30 years of peace in [Western Europe] without the U.N." British officials, who strongly agree with the Reagan Administration that U.N. agencies have become far too infected with Third World politics, particularly over the Arab-Israeli issue, feel that the U.N. remains a valuable diplomatic umbrella...
...then adds, "When you've done, go out quietly." That, implies the author, is the history of the commoner before his betters. But in Elian's retelling, everyman proves uncommon, and a mockingbird sits on his shoulder. When these Millses leave, they go noisily, and the echo they leave behind is the rocking sound of the last laugh. - By R.Z. Sheppard
...major foreign policy issues, however, the difference between Kohl and Schmidt, at least in the short term, is more likely to be one of tone rather than substance - what a Kohl aide has called "continuity with new accents." The new Chancellor will echo Schmidt's firm stand in support of the 1983 installation of intermediate-range cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe, although he may face more vociferous opposition than his predecessor did from West Germany's burgeoning anti-nuclear movement. Also, Kohl is unlike ly to change West Germany's position on the building...
...hardly looks troublesome these days, this odd, '30s fortress with the Greek-echo name. In September 1971, Attica put hell on display for the nation. There are no signs of a riot today. The shock to one's system lies simply in the place itself, its main wall rising 30 ft. around 53 acres in the middle of dead-quiet upstate greenery. The wall is gray gray. Nothing in nature, including a rock, could be that color. Guards say the wall goes down 30 ft. in spots so as to hold fast in the quicksand. At intervals along...