Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Geisel's hand-picked successor-the fifth general designated to govern Brazil since a military junta ousted President Joao Goulart nearly 15 years ago. All the generals have been stern, but they have lately been disposed to give Brazilians a controlled measure of political freedom. Geisel, who described his country as a "relative democracy," ended newspaper censorship, limited the arrest and torture of dissidents, and permitted the formation of opposition...
...country whose notes have been subpoenaed by prosecutors or defense attorneys in the wake of the Times incident. No one can say how many of the subpoenas were directly inspired by that widely publicized case, but the number appears to have risen dramatically. The Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, which is looking into at least 29 cases involving journalists who have been subpoenaed in the past 18 months, notes that new cases are coming in at the rate of 100 to 125 a year. In many instances, the subpoenas are being issued despite state "shield" laws...
...Soviet atomic bomb project. Finally released after Stalin's death, he resumed the direction of his own Moscow Institute for Physical Problems, helped promote the idea of an entire city, Akademgorodok, devoted to science and, along with Physicist Andrei Sakharov, became an outspoken champion of intellectual freedom...
...along draft treaties. TIME has learned that the U.S. also has a formal proposal-an eight-page document, spelling out in detail the main issues to be negotiated. The chief areas of discussion: 1) normalization of relations between Israel and Egypt, including the opening of borders, exchange of ambassadors, freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal, tourism and cultural and journalistic exchanges; 2) a timetable for Israeli withdrawals from the Sinai, including the turnover of Israeli settlements and airfields in the Sinai to the Egyptians, and the establishment of demilitarized zones and specified areas for U.N. troops; and 3) future...
...ceremony was as flavorful and varied as Kenya itself. Native chieftains in python-skin and ostrich-feather robes, Indian women hi flowing, pastel-shaded saris, black and white Kenyans in khaki safari outfits or pinstripe suits crowded around the dais in Nairobi's Uhuru (freedom in Swahili) Park. Hundreds of tribal dancers in monkey-skin skirts and black feather headdresses swayed rhythmically, rattling anklets made of Coca-Cola bottletops and ululating cries of praise. Naval battalions boomed out a 21-gun salute, and there was an ear-cracking, low-flying aeronautics display by fighters of the Kenya air force...