Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attend Soviet V-E day celebrations but instead to send lower-ranking diplomats. Arthur Hartman, the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, boycotted the Red Square parade in specific protest against the killing of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson in March by a Soviet sentry in East Germany. But Hartman did lay a wreath at Moscow's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. "This is our tribute to those who gave their lives," he said. "It is the most significant ceremony...
...violent protest justifiable? If one defends the American Revolution. It is on occasion. I will not presume to define all the conditions necessary for violent action to be morally right, but I will lay two minimal requirements. First, the liberty which the protester blocks must be one he or she believes to be wrong: he must be using violence to restrain someone in a way he wishes the law would. When the civil rights movement staged sit-ins, when Blacks rode in the front of segregated busses, the "liberty" attacked was the liberty of bigots to deny dignity and rights...
...task seems, except for the most insatiable voyeur, grim: analyzing nearly every Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler ever published--660 anatomically repetitive issues. Even so, the cost seems high: $734,371, or more than $1,100 per issue. And the announced goal is fuzzy: "To lay the foundation for future studies on the possible influence, or lack of influence, of erotica/ pornography, with particular emphasis on issues of child exploitation." The Justice Department has retained Judith Reisman, a communications consultant, to head a staff of 19 researchers on the project. A broader study, involving more magazines, was started more than...
...loose life of pornographic orgies and sapphic lovers, Little Gloria's paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sued for custody of the child in 1934 and won. In the best account of this celebrated trial, Little Gloria, Happy at Last (1980), Journalist Barbara Goldsmith argued that a greater anguish lay below the ten-year-old's fear of being torn from her home in some Solomonic decision. "I was afraid she would take me away," Gloria had testified, ". . . do something . . . then IT will happen." Here, Goldsmith theorizes, the girl was subtly conscious of the second most famous child of '30s headlines...
Republicans swatted their House leader Robert Michel for being defeatist on contra aid. Reagan bashed Congress for "surrendering" to Communists. USIA Director Charles Wick, a close Reagan friend, zapped his old buddy for wanting to lay a wreath at the Bitburg cemetery. Jewish groups continued to denounce his German itinerary. Reagan has been a great booster of the military, but that did not stop the American Legion from getting in some licks about Bitburg...