Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hiroshima is almost totally rebuilt now, and many of the present inhabitants were not born when the white flash blinded the city. But they still gather to remember. Some 40,000 assembled last week in the peace park, and at 8:15 a.m.-the hour at which the whale-shaped bomb dropped from the Enola Gay-a bell tolled to signal a moment of silent prayer. Men and women wept...
...Azores archipelago (pop. 300,000) look like a setting for a Graham Greene novel. Sheer rocky cliffs drop abruptly to the Atlantic, while the lush, subtropical countryside spreads out in a crazy quilt of farm plots separated by rock fences. Late each day, young and old alike gather under plane trees in the colorful town squares to catch a little relief from the heat and oppressive humidity, and to talk...
Gregory spoke to a crowd of nearly 200 people in Science Center Con behalf of the Labor Organizers' Defense Fund (LODF) about the immediate necessity to gather information about CIA deception and "to put them away before they put you away...
...sharing the limelight will be French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In all, leaders or representatives of 35 states will gather at Helsinki, including spokesmen for the Vatican and every European country except myopic, Maoist Albania. Everyone seemed to be groping for a phrase that would sum up the spectacle. Departing slightly from theatrical images, a European delegate murmured: "Helsinki will be a living Madame Tussaud's, the greatest show...
...established within its counterintelligence staff a special group, called Operation CHAOS, ostensibly to gather information abroad about U.S. dissidents' foreign contacts. Located in a vaulted basement area at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., CHAOS operated under secrecy that was excessive by even CIA standards, leading the commission to conclude that top CIA officials knew "that the operation, at least in part, was close to being a proscribed activity." For instance, CHAOS' chief reported directly to then CIA Director Richard Helms, rather than to Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton, who was not even informed of all of the operation...