Word: generale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School committee on Gay Legal Issues has asked students to boycott today's scheduled recruiting interviews with the U.S. Navy's office of the general counsel because of the Navy's alleged discrimination against homosexuals...
Stephen M. Bernardi, assistant dean for academic administration at the Law School, said yesterday the Navy's general counsel had assured him the office's hiring policies conform to the school's placement office rules...
Bernardi said the jobs in the general counsel's office are civilian, not military, and the offending Navy regulations apply only to uniformed personnel. The Navy counsel told Bernardi that other Department of Defense regulations about homosexuality that did apply to civilians had been superseded by Congress' Civil Service Reform Act, Bernardi added...
Thus spoke Fidel Castro. Stabbing at the air, leaning dramatically against the lectern, the bearded Cuban President addressed the United Nations General Assembly for more than two hours. It was his first visit to the U.S. in 19 years, and Castro marked the occasion by larding his speech with anti-American gibes. He began by insisting that he did not intend "to use unnecessary adjectives to wound a powerful neighbor in his own house." But then he went on to accuse the U.S. of "hostile acts, pressures and threats" against Cuba...
...nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the U.S. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the U.S. to the Monroe Doctrine may force the U.S., however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power...