Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months after the end of the Wounded Knee occupation charges have been dropped against Boston Globe reporter Thomas Oliphant...
Charges were dropped Thursday with the approval of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41, the Globe reported Friday. Richardson was appointed to his present office shortly after the voluntary surrender of the armed occupants of Wounded Knee, who dramatized their protest of the Federal government's treatment of Indians by holding up in the South Dakota town for 70 days...
Although he was the only journalist at Wounded Knee formally charged with conspiracy to incite riot, Oliphant volunteered that "in a broader context" he had been arrested to "frighten away others or steer them away" from first-person coverage of the siege of the South Dakota town...
...have worked hard to rid Libya's schools of alien influences. On Libya University's 8,500-student Tripoli campus, committees composed of professors, students and workers determine the curriculum and teaching methods. There I talked with Saddiqa Arriba, an attractive brunette wearing blue slacks and a knee-length tunic. As some students now do, she introduced many of her remarks with the ritual phrase Bismillah, ar-Rahman ar-Rahim (In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate...
Conrad undocked and maneuvered Apollo to Skylab. Wearing a bulky space suit, Weitz leaned out of Apollo's hatch (while Kerwin held onto his knee to keep him from drifting out into space) and attempted to pull the jammed panel loose with a long-handled tool resembling a boat hook. The panel would not budge. After an hour of pushing, shoving and tugging-interspersed with streams of obscenities clearly audible to millions-the task seemed hopeless. "I hate to say it," said the exasperated Weitz, "but we ain't going to do it with the tools...