Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last summer, a Labor Party M.P. asked British officials if they were aware that Pakistan was buying equipment suitable for building a gas centrifuge system. Eventually intelligence agents from several countries, including the U.S., pieced together the Pakistani buying spree and reached the conclusion that Islamabad was buying itself the...
Aron has marshaled a huge arsenal of facts to prove that the U.S.S.R has lagged behind the West in productivity, living standards, scientific progress and human rights. His summary: "If the virtues of an economic regime are measured by its capacity to answer the wishes of the population, organize the...
On the agenda are three strong whaling-moratorium proposals that require a 75% majority for passage. The most dramatic idea comes from Australia, until last year a vigorous whaling country. It wants an indefinite ban on all whaling. The Carter Administration, backed only last week by Congress, has submitted a...
Even if none of the moratorium calls are approved, the whaling industry may soon be sunk by dwindling profits. Greenpeace has observed that the whaling ships of the U.S.S.R. are rusted and worn and that Japan's are only slightly better-a clear sign that the world's...
The Supreme Court's majority opinion, written by Justice William Brennan, conceded that the lower courts' rulings had followed the letter of the 1964 law, but insisted that they were not within its spirit. The primary concern of Congress was with "the plight of the Negro in our...