Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene marked the end of a historic decade of dissent in the Soviet Union. Since 1965 the KGB had conducted a campaign to fragment Russia's "democratic movement for human rights" by imprisoning or exiling its members. Amalrik, 38, was the last of his generation of celebrated protester-intellectuals to succumb. At Moscow airport, Physicist Valentin Turchin, a longtime Amalrik friend, explained that although a whole new group of lesser-known dissidents had sprung up to replace the old, "Andrei's departure is a pity for us; he is able to draw much attention to our movement...
were fired. A palm print of Oswald's was on the rifle barrel, under its stock. The intact bullet recovered at the hospital and a fragment of the second bullet, found in the car, matched the rifling of the gun. Oswald's flight from his perch, which was handily obscured by boxes moved by a crew laying new flooring, was not as impossibly speedy as the critics contend. He was seen on the second floor by the building manager and a police officer about 90 seconds after the shooting. Warren Commission investigators retraced the same route from...
...another fragment of history means much more to Kubacki, the story of his brother Ray who graduated Harvard in 1968. Ray's situation, when he too was a junior, was very much like Jim's: he had competed with six other quarterbacks, learning just days before the first game that he was slated to start. But two days before that game, Ray ruptured a disc, and was never to play football again...
...officials negotiating with the committee agreed that five paragraphs of the classified material could be published, but differed hotly on four words in one of the documents. Over CIA and Pentagon protests, the Congressmen voted 6-3 to declassify them. Though the sentence fragment is now in the public domain, no one with any authority would identify it. But speculation was that the four words were "and greater communications security." The phrase referred to one of the preparations made by Egypt in the days before the war. CIA Director William Colby explained that the innocuous-seeming words could give experts...
Though some congressional critics think the aid total too high, particularly for Israel, the opposition Kissinger faces is mild compared with the criticism that Egypt's Sadat is getting from his supposed Arab friends. Syria's President Hafez Assad called the agreement "a serious attempt to fragment and weaken the Arab front." George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was more vitriolic. Habash, who is boycotting the Palestine Liberation Organization because he considers the P.L.O. too moderate, predicted that the Arab masses would soon "turn Sadat and his agreement into an irrelevant moment...