Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand jury findings lent strong evidence to the case that it was the police -and not the Panthers-who shot first. Yet the jury was unable to return any indictments against the 14 policemen in the raid, largely because the seven surviving Panthers refused to testify before the predominantly white federal grand jury. They seemed to prefer propagandizing their martyrs. "The grand jury is forced to conclude that [the Panthers] are more interested in the issue of police persecution than they are in obtaining justice," the report said. "Perhaps revolutionary groups simply do not want the legal system to work...
...wonder if Harvard Administrators feel any special pangs of remorse over the Kent State massacre. Just one year ago, they lent respectability to the hateful proposition that police terror is a legitimate response to political turmoil on the campus...
...killing of four Kent State University students by National Guardsmen Monday lent a sense of crisis to student protests against the American invasion of Cambodia...
Everywhere the Communists seemed to be able to move with impunity. The attack that really lent urgency to Lon Nol's requests for outside military aid (see THE NATION) was a show of Communist power and Cambodian impotence at Saang, a handsome French provincial town only 15 miles south of Phnom-Penh on the west bank of the Bassac River. For five days, a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese force of undetermined size-perhaps only 100 men-held the town against a force of 4,000 Cambodian troops, who arrived in a fleet of commandeered buses and trucks. Only...
...technical problems of the rescue. Throughout, says Janos, "NASA remained calm, candid and cooperative. Busy Administrator Tom Paine found a quiet corner to talk at length with us about the problems confronting NASA after the accident. Chris Kraft gave Don and me steaming mugs of coffee during one interview, lent us a tape recorder when ours suffered battery problems...