Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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L.C.N. is a foreign pirate government at war with our nation. Americans who become citizens of the underground state of L.C.N. renounce their U.S. citizenship and the civil rights that go with it. Their renunciation, de facto though it may be, could open the legal door for the Government to plan a coordinated military attack on L.C.N. The Marines should deal with these latter-day Barbary pirates, not an understaffed FBI or 50 uncoordinated, oft-corrupt police forces...
...President and the ex-President exchanged confidences of state for an hour and ten minutes. Presidential Assistants John Ehrlichman and Bob Haldeman came by to help review the domestic situation with Johnson, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger joined the discussion of foreign affairs and Viet Nam. It was a replay in reverse of the White House meeting late in L.B.J.'s presidency at which Johnson briefed President-elect Nixon on the nation's problems. Nixon and Johnson rejoined their families in the villa for a roast-beef luncheon topped off with a three-tiered, lemon-filled birthday...
...putting it mildly. There are at least five more or less active political organizations. Western diplomats are clearly skeptical of their effectiveness. "You can just imagine them sitting around a campfire, saying: 'You can be my finance minister if I can be your defense chief,' " said a foreign observer. "The guy who owns a typewriter is the guy who can start a new Southern Sudanese provisional government." There is no doubting the passion of the rebels. "There will be no solution until the Arabs leave the south," said one leader. "We have nothing more to lose...
...type of white blood cell, the lymphoid cells. They have the genetically built-in ability to identify other cells as "self" (part of the same body) or "not self" (invaders to be destroyed). In the presence of "self" cells the lymphoid cells remain passive, but if they detect foreign material, they manufacture antibodies to contain or attack the invader. These antibodies are in the form of gamma globulin particles. Some remain on the surface of the lymphoid cells and circulate with them; others, free-floating, circulate in the blood stream. Both kinds adhere to cells in the foreign tissues...
...strumming guitars and wailing trumpets. The cathedral is packed every Sunday for the two "mariachi Masses," and many in the crowd are young men, an unusual sight in Latin American churches. After Mass, the bishop mingles with the crowd outside, chatting in one or another of five languages with foreign visitors, and pausing occasionally to give a parishioner a warm abrazo...