Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis back home were focusing full attention on the proceedings. Egypt's normally noisy capital fell all but silent at 7:30 local time each evening, as Cairenes planted themselves in front of television sets for live reports from the U.S. Others clustered in apartment-building courtyards to hear radio newscasts...
...York City-trained pediatrician and child psychiatrist, recalls her experiences as a doctor in a small Iranian village ten years ago. The people had a saying that the first child belonged to the crows - because of the likelihood that it would not survive. "That is bitter and terrible to hear," she says. "Millions were spent to build big gambling casinos. Corruption thrived around us while kids died because they drank contaminated water, and there was no vaccine for infectious diseases. Do you wonder that we are desperate...
...first the guerrillas, clad in jungle green uniforms, seemed friendly, promising help. But then they herded together the ten people at the wreckage, robbed them of their valuables, and finally cut them down with automatic weapons fire. From another hiding place, businessman Hans Hansen and his wife Diana could hear the victims crying, "Please don't shoot us!" as the firing began. Dazed by the ordeal, Hansen said later: "I'll never be able to get that moment out of my mind...
Dudley R. Herschbach, professor of Chemistry and chairman of the Chemistry Department, said yesterday he is very glad to hear that Levich may be allowed to emigrate...
...damaged landing craft and looking for the 24th Division's command post, with the diminutive [Carlos] Romulo skipping to catch up, [General George] Kenney heard the General murmur to himself: 'This is what I dreamed about.' Kenney thought it was more like a nightmare. He could hear the taunts of enemy soldiers, speaking that broken English which was so familiar to soldiers and Marines in the Pacific: 'Surrender, all is resistless!' and 'How are your machine guns feeling today?' and 'F.D.R. eat shit...