Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of his career. A graduate of Yale and Columbia Law, he joined TIME in 1971 and reported from Bonn and London, often about business and energy, before becoming a New York-based writer two years ago. "I hear the same solutions proposed, and the same complaining I heard five years ago," he says of the current crisis. "It's like watching reruns of a depressing moviethe same scenes, the same actors and the same script...
...troops were preparing for what their commander, one of Amin's nephews, called a "noble, bloody" last stand against an advancing column of Tanzanians. The screams of Simbas who were being garroted by their comrades for counseling surrender or trying to escape across the border could clearly be heard by passers-by on the town's unpaved main street...
...seems to me that in this debate, at least among those who have declared themselves to be in general agreement on the question of the singularity of South African repression, that there is one lesson that overrides all the others, which is the lesson of powerlessness. I have heard, and I think it is shared by many of us, even many of us who have signed the letter, the open letter which was submitted, that there is not a great deal which we can do in an immediate sense to change the character of the South African regime...
...read that as a personal statement at all, but simply because we've heard so many arguments on different sides, but many of them have to do with withdrawal. It seemed to me that statement from . . .at least, I was going to say, throws further light, increases the complexity of our situation...
Last year, the TVA, Mobil Oil, and United Nuclear Corporation submitted an environmental impact statement for a proposed uranium mine and mill complex in the eastern portion of the Navajo reservation. The BIA made arrangements for the lease in 1970, although Navajos living in the area never heard anything about the proposal until 1978. Mary C. Largo, a Navajo woman of the Dalton Pass Chapter (an area under lease), signed up as a plaintiff in the December 1978 lawsuit after drilling began on her land allotment without her permission. "I never saw any contract papers, I never put my thumbprint...