Word: information
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...routine for Andrei Sakharov, foremost builder of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Russian human rights movement. On that day, a friend had brought a report of yet another arrest, and it was Sakharov's self-imposed duty to inform Western journalists, who would tell the world...
Martin H. Ross said at the meeting the failure of death penalty opponents to inform the public of their views during the last decade harmed the cause of abolition...
...information was passed to the West Germans, who signaled Paris of their intention to seek Abu Daoud's arrest and extradition. The DST's failure to inform higher-ups led some to believe that pro-Israeli officials in the DST and other ministries were out to torpedo the pro-Arab government of Giscard...
...shortcomings, says the subcommittee, is the EPA'S failure to act effectively against leptophos, an insecticide that has recently been implicated in an outbreak of nervous disorders among employees at a plant operated by the Velsicol Chemical Corp. in Bayport, Texas. The company, notes the report, failed to inform the EPA of the illnesses for five months. But the EPA ignored equally compelling evidence that the chemical was dangerous. In 1973 and 1974, while the EPA was evaluating leptophos, it received repeated warnings from scientists that the compound was neurotoxic, or capable of causing nerve damage in test animals...
...people of America. The deep-down prejudices of too many people are being dragged to the surface and in the process submerging rational consideration and thought and understanding. What we face today is not only the same fight we have been waging for years, but the additional task of informing Americans that to obey the law of the land is not punishment, but freedom! We must inform America that true educational opportunity is not found on the speedometer of a school bus. In many districts, in fact, the amount of bussing formerly used to maintain segregated schools. We are asking...