Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith College last month sold almost $700,000 worth of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company stock because the company did not satisfactorily explain the rationale for construction of a new plant in South Africa...
...President Carter says: "The legitimate rights of the Palestinian people must be recognized." Has he ever asked the Arabs to explain why through the years 1948 to 1967 they never recognized the rights of the Palestinian people and never gave them the land they want Israel to give them now? Something smells in the Middle East besides...
...report did not explain satisfactorily how the prisoners had come into possession of pistols, knives, explosives and radios. It suggested that the items must have been smuggled in some time before the prisoners were put into solitary confinement following Schleyer's kidnaping. Another theory: prison guards had found the contraband but did not confiscate it, after being threatened with reprisals against their families. Such threats have been made before against Germans who have not wanted to help Baader-Meinhof gang members...
...crack in France's leftist alliance has turned into a chasm. Last week the Communists announced that in the next few months they would hold 25,000 mass meetings?at a cost of $2 million ?to "explain" the sins of the Socialist Party to French voters. Abandoning their earlier strategy of silence about the split, the Socialists are busy turning out books and pamphlets defending their position. Both sides refuse to compromise on the contentious issue of how much of French industry should be nationalized under the common program of a leftist government (TIME, Oct. 10). Declared Socialist Leader...
What accounts for so much of Washington's sound-alike journalism? The press corps itself often laments rat-pack reporting, the result of too many people and cameras covering the same obvious event. This phenomenon does explain many of the capital's transient curiosities, hasty judgments and fast-fading enthusiasms. But the real tone o Washington opinion is set by those commentators and ru-rninators who no longer have to join the pack, who write from their studies, travel the Georgetown dinner circuit and can get through on the phone to anyone who counts. They can report what...