Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Events are connected enigmatically--Maldonado returns from his operation to his Jewish wife who is rocking mutely in a nun's habit; a man killed in a meat freezer scrawls the word "nun" in blood on the glass door. The reader, along with Maldonado, wonders whether and why things occur. All the disjointed events arrive at a climactic suspension--Maldonado's second attempt on the President's life. The reader never discovers whether Maldonado is successful the second time...
...latter hardly infringes any significant rights of privacy. The passing-on of the student's name without his permission to the CIA is a different matter because the student becomes automatically subject to an unsolicited security check--a far more serious threat to his rights. That such checks occur independently of covert recruitment is of course no argument to challenge controls over them when they are connected...
...deco U.S.O. dance hall, all look real, and a few of the facts are real. A lone Japanese sub marine did bombard the California coast not long after Pearl Harbor, and a kind of panic resulted. There were also zoot-suit riots in Los Angeles, but they did not occur until later on, and it was not Stilwell who put them down (though he commanded the Third Corps at Monterey in the early days of the war). Spielberg has simply brought everything together in one mad moment. Says he: "It's about a week where everybody put his worst...
...boycott will occur on the same day the Harvard Corporation meets to discuss shareholder resolutions...
...that thousands of young men, and possibly women, will again be subjected to government intrusion and channeling. Individuals' rights to privacy and conscience will be casualties of the military buildup. Although registration would undoubtedly be conducted in as low-key a fashion as possible, widespread resistance is likely to occur and our government will likely prosecute those who don't cooperate. Perhaps most dangerously, a registration will provide the Pentagon with a faceless pool of prospective inductees to be used in a largescale intervention overseas. A beefed-up standby draft system will expand our mobilization capability and make it easier...