Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your cover story on Israel and Menachem Begin [May 30] was a disgrace. In the only democratic election in the Middle East, the people of Israel elected a man and his party to replace a corrupt, weak and scandal-ridden government-and TIME talks about Trouble in the Promised Land...
...ordered in a special helicopter armed with an infra-red sensing device; it began roaming the area, hunting for minute changes in temperature on the forest floor that might be caused by the presence of men. In all, five helicopters flew over the area, occasionally whirring down to land on the baseball field outside the prison that the convicts share amiably with the local Little League team. Officials claimed they had sealed off a 10-sq.-mi. area, but other agents began taking the precautionary step of checking highways and airports in Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Kentucky...
...been advised that his presence would be "inappropriate" because of his regime's brutal tyranny. Then Radio Uganda suddenly announced that Amin was on his way to London, setting off a flurry of rumors that his plane was circling various airports in Europe looking for a place to land. It turned out to be a hoax; Big Daddy never left Uganda...
...Land compared the nature of the perception process to a symphony that poses a question to the audience in its opening bars, only to provide the answer in the closing passages...
...Land's address followed the reading by Robert Penn Warren, professor emeritus at Yale and a noted author and poet, of his most recent poem...