Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both ordinary and powerful people are becoming concerned--not only with the validity of the Unification Church as a theological institution and its aims at world theocracy, but also with the legitimacy of its business practices. Indeed, the whole issue raises significant questions about the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion...
...Middlesex Superior Court justice could overturn the council's actions Thursday, however. School committee candidate Alice Wolf filed suit last week seeking an injunction against enforcement of the sign ordinance, claiming it unconstitutionally denied freedom of speech to Cambridge residents...
Susan Brownmiller and her cohorts do not threaten freedom of expression any more than those who espouse speed limits and pure food laws challenge our right to drive cars and eat dinner. When thoughtful people refuse to take prudent steps against social outrages they leave it to the crazies to make political capital...
...there was a tone of urgency in his appeals for progress in the stalemated negotiations on autonomy for the Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Sadat underscored the theme as soon as his glistening white yacht el-Houriya (Freedom) docked at Haifa port. After receiving a 21-gun salute and watching a fly-over by ten Israeli Kfir jet fighters, Sadat expressed his determination "to spread the umbrella of peace to include the Palestinian people," adding: "This is a moral commitment to which we will remain faithful at all tunes...
...hour-long ecumenical service in Westminster Abbey was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Donald Coggan. He eulogized Lord Mountbatten for his "high enthusiasm and liberality of spirit, his integrity and flair for leadership, his dedication to the cause of freedom and justice ... He was so rare a person." After the buglers had sounded the last post and reveille, the coffin was taken to Waterloo Station for the final journey to Romsey, 87 miles southwest of London. There, in accordance with his wishes, Mountbatten was buried on the grounds of a 12th century abbey, his body facing...