Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britons, Vietnamese and even a 400-member U.S. delegation trooped into Havana for singing, dancing, stadium pageantry, rap sessions and some frolicking on Cuba's beaches, they faced an additional event: the Youth Accuses Imperialism International Tribunal. A panel of eight "judges," headed by Uruguayan Physician Hugo Villar, heard scores of witnesses reel off accusations-some old, some true, many distorted or false-against the CIA. One star witness was Philip Agee, a former CIA agent now turned professional anti-agency muckraker. Other witnesses related details of a 1962 CIA poisoning scheme (during a time, admittedly, when the agency...
...political timetable and the foreign-policy timetable. The elections are due in another three years, and on that timetable we are in no hurry. Yet there is a foreign-policy calendar with its own dates. It is on that schedule that we should try to make our opinions heard very loud and clear and to add our own contribution to policymaking. There are times when the leadership has to represent the wishes of the people and other times when the leadership has to lead. The peace negotiations are the overriding consideration of our people, and this is guiding...
...Yeah, right, pal, I've heard that one before. But whatever, let me tell ya that that blizzard was no fun, all alone, and the summer hasn't been any great shakes either...
People want to know, and have a right to be curious about such things." Indeed, long before anyone heard of Huxley or even Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster, people were fascinated and frightened by the prospects of creating life outside the womb...
...only coherence was that of mood, but the songs leaked suggestive bits of near-meaning that made beyond-sense, especially when heard through a chemical fog. Re-creating this fog in a film is what Director Michael Schultz and Producer Robert Stigwood have tried to do, and, given the $12 million budget they had, it was inevitable that they would try too hard...