Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps the nation's all-time champion embezzler. Over the course of 21 years, he stole $4,611,473,35. Since he was sentenced last week to only ten years, and will be eligible for parole in about three years, he does not feel too bad about his fate-indeed, he feels almost philosophical...
...hide behind legalisms? The time has come to repair the fabric of our society. One step which will speed that agonizing process would be a Presidential pardon to those who evaded military service. While these individuals have not suffered the fate of prisoners of war in North Vietnam, they are "prisoners of the war" in the sense that they left our country to avoid participation in a war started by forces beyond their control...
...military prisoners must be released within 60 days. There must be a full accounting of all such prisoners at the time of the signing, and both sides must help determine the fate of soldiers missing in action, including the locating of graves. The release of civilian prisoners held in South Viet Nam must be negotiated by the two powers there...
Centurion. Just as it is Hoffa's destiny to claw toward power once again, it is Sheridan's fate to oppose him. The author was one of Robert Kennedy's principal aides while Kennedy was chief counsel to the Senate Rackets Committee that investigated Teamster wrongdoing. When Kennedy became Attorney General, Sheridan enlisted as a senior centurion in the Justice Department legion that finally brought Hoffa to justice. Later, as an investigative reporter, Sheridan managed to stay in touch with the case...
...Darwin, Allah and cybernetics." It is "a reflection of a past that antedates Christ and machines; it is also a determination to be modern." Paz concedes the course of events. "The Third World is condemned to modernity and the task confronting us is not so much to escape this fate as to discover a less inhuman form of conversion...