Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Note is headlined "The Amnesty Failure" [Sept. 22]. You are wrong. Amnesty did not fail. Only the narrow, shallow, unrealistic "clemency" program has "quietly fizzled." It deserved to fail. Now let's give amnesty a chance...
What most of the 6,000 actually saw of their heroes was little. For the most part, the bleary-eyed ballplayers just moved right through a narrow alley etched between the bodies by the State Troopers, smiling and occasionally shaking hands, but never stopping until they reached the buses...
None of this is to argue that more Marxists shouldn't be hired. The department as presently constituted is clearly too narrow. Besides, nothing will reveal the vacuity of the ill-conceived Marxist doctrine more than a complete airing in an environment where all views are represented...
...remedies could have become worse than the disease. "The biggest mistake I made was that I assumed the integrity of the intelligence people would be so great that despite the sweeping nature of their powers, they would be used only in the most narrow and restricted circumstances. I didn't consider that the person using that power would not be [former CIA director] Dick Helms but [convicted Watergate burglar] Howard Hunt." And, he added, "the danger is that you move from the kid with the bomb to the kid with the picket sign to the kid with the bumper...
...weeks a convoy of 15 giant barges, each longer than a football field and carrying vital equipment for construction of the Alaska oil pipeline, had waited at anchor for strong winds to blow ice away from the shore line near Point Barrow. That would create a narrow navigation channel, enabling ice-free sailing to the pipeline's northern terminus at Prudhoe Bay. The winds finally came, and the convoy moved out. But the winds shifted unexpectedly and began blowing ice back into the path of the fleet. Last week the convoy was forced to retreat 30 miles to avoid...