Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group's theoretician and son of the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. Through members acting as couriers, the leaders kept in touch with a nationwide network of four-or five-member cells which were constantly on the run. Known as "foco," the Spanish word for "focus" or "center," they each operated independently, recruiting new members and carrying out bombings and other terrorist acts that had been cleared in advance by the Weather Bureau. Says Grathwohl: "We were all paranoid as hell. We never parked cars closer than two blocks from where we were staying. We never...
...binding agreement to the Sinai package-until an Administration proposal to station up to 200 technicians at monitoring posts around the Mitla and Giddi passes is approved by Congress. Nevertheless, some uneasiness continued to surface on Capitol Hill about parts of the Administration's Sinai deal. The main focus is the private Kissinger assurance to the Israelis that they will get a "positive" hearing on their request for some sophisticated weapons, including Pershing missiles. Congressional Democrats have vowed to stall the vital technicians resolution until the Administration reveals all such agreements it has made with Middle Eastern governments. Meanwhile...
Lorene Rogers, a biochemist and former professor of nutrition, is an unlikely center of campus controversy. Yet last week Rogers-quiet, petite and slender at 61-was indeed the focus of protest at the University of Texas at Austin, as many of the faculty and students demanded her resignation. They did not particularly object to her academic qualifications or her performance as an educator; after all, she has been on campus for 26 years, including stints as associate graduate dean and vice president. Rather, the campus anger was directed at the board of regents, which had ignored the candidates offered...
...handiwork began to leak out. There appeared to be no devastating time bombs hidden among the private "assurances" the Secretary of State had given the Israeli government that might jeopardize the deal's seemingly good chances of winning congressional approval. Most of what criticism there was seemed to focus on the sophisticated and costly weapons that Kissinger had used to sweeten the pot for an agreement...
...mistakenly mixing a tranquilizer and drinks), she has remained in a coma ever since. One side of her permanently damaged brain shows almost no sign of functioning while the other gives off only slight but steady signals visible on an electroencephalogram. Last week, unwittingly, Karen Ann became the focus of the continuing legal-medical-ethical controversy over how to define death...