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Word: explaination (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intelligence-gathering sources pick up an enormous amount of information not necessarily related to SALT. These functions, explained Administration officials, were what Director Turner was referring to when he told the Senate committee that it would take until 1984 to replace the Iranian bases. What the Administration did not want to explain was exactly how the U.S. expects to be able to substitute so quickly for the SALT tasks of the Iranian sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: If Moscow Cheats at SALT | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...group of law-abiding people like the Mennonites would come in here on tourist visas and settle down and start farming," says Seminole Mayor Bob Clark. "They were just getting some bad advice?or someone was deceiving them." Says Reimer: "Rumors, rumors, all is rumors. But I cannot explain to them myself how it happened." Says Seth Woltz, a real estate appraiser who helped sell the Mennonites the land: "They had very few questions about the deal when we closed it. As far as their immigrant rights?what do I know about immigration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Longer the Promised Land | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...hand, he would signal which were to die that night. At 7 p.m. precisely, the cars parked in the courtyard would be started to drown out the screams to come. Each prisoner was brought down and told to kneel before an officer in the yard. He was asked to explain why he had been brought in and was told he was being released. Then guards would leap from the darkness, loop a thick rope round the victim's neck and slowly strangle him. The coup de gráce was a sledgehammer blow to the chest. It took about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Amin's Horror Chamber | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...University of Chicago spokesman angrily branded Murphy's allegations "exaggerations and misstatements." In defense of Huggins and the university, he produced a research paper, published in 1958, that appeared to explain the surgery: it was performed seven years earlier with family consent on only six schizophrenics, two of whom also had cancer -one in the prostate gland, the other in the breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Guinea Pigs? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...ambisexuals seemed well adjusted. They had no psychiatric or work problems, but were detached and lonely, and fantasized very little, a fact that the researchers cannot explain. The chapter on sex fantasies conies with a deflating warning: don't make too much of the findings because they came from only 132 people, were gathered a decade or more ago, and will not be reported in full until the next Masters and Johnson book, Human Sexual Inadequacy II, due in 1981. Still, the preliminary findings show that fantasies of forced sex were the most popular fantasies among lesbians and the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Masters & Johnson on Homosexuality | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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