Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end Sadat gave a tough speech before the Egyptian parliament, in which he emphasized that the peace talks had collapsed because Israel refused to express its willingness to withdraw from Arab territory. Sadat acknowledged that the Israeli people had shown "in the most unmistakable human manner" their desire for peace, but he accused their government of deceit and said he had threatened war if Israel insisted on keeping its settlements in the Sinai (see box). "I will not allow a single settlement," Sadat said he told Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that...
...were shot. It must have been fun for him to work with a big budget for a change. Considering the gifts he has given us over the years, one must also be happy for his happiness, and for this lavish demonstration that even the greatest of artists is only human, that is to say, capable of self-indulgence on a grand scale...
...this gets him into excesses of rhetoric. Carter digs his own trapholes-the idealist devoted to human rights can be downright fulsome when meeting dictators. Why, asked Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., did Carter, in a situation that called for only ambiguous politeness, say that the Communist leaders of Poland and the autocratic Shah of Iran share the same ideals that...
...while science advances, patients are denied what may be an effective treatment for many human ills by the persistence of antediluvian notions of the drug's ill effects and of archaic legislation. Those who oppose allowing use of marijuana as a prescription drug point to numerous studies that have accused it of horrible side effects ranging from lowering hormone levels in males to damaging brain tissue. Many of these studies, though, are methodologically dubious; the political requirements of funding never take precedence over sound research technique. Generally, these studies use extremely high dosage levels to establish harmful effects. Few establish...
...least a year) was required before the rules could be carried out. A federal district court in Fresno, California ruled in their favor. Taylor, a champion of the 160-acre restriction since the 1920's, has dismissed the lawsuit as "another one of their delaying tactics. If you include human beings in the environmental impact, the result is clear," he said recently...