Word: objective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Society keeps on going as before; those who object are those least likely to join in the first place. So Dames has just never gotten around to changing its bylaws...
...stir. Last week Thaddeus Nkuo, first secretary of Cameroon in Washington and himself a Kom, demanded its return, explaining: "It is beyond money, beyond value. It is the heart of the Kom, what unifies the tribe, the spirit of the nation, what holds us together. It is not an object of art for sale, and could...
...question scarcely matters, since with all the diplomatic hassle, the statue may well be returned to Kom, perhaps with compensation to Furman. Even so, it will leave moot the questions that more and more agitate the art world: Can or should even a legitimate owner sell an art object outside his own country if it is declared a national treasure, and can an art dealer legitimately buy it, in good faith, for mere cash...
What's our object? We really want peace-not as an ideological thing to please Washington or Moscow. We want it as a framework in which we can go on developing. But we cannot have peace and occupation. The cease-fire we want must be linked to complete evacuation by Israelis of all Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian lands...
...about the case, the attorney was not the least bit reticent: "My client is innocent. Ehrlichman should never have been indicted in the first place. A key question concerns asportation-to steal, take, carry away. By God, tell me what was stolen in this case. Nothing. What was the object of the entry? Who gave those young men the orders to break in? These are intriguing questions, but there's one clear fact: there was no burglary as the law defines...