Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger quoted an Arabic expression -"Illi fat mat" (the past is dead)-and recommended that negotiators be guided by it during the days of difficult bargaining ahead. Said Kissinger: "The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong, but when two rights face each other. We are challenged by emotions so deeply felt that the tragic march from cataclysm to cataclysm sometimes seems preordained. Yet our presence here today is a symbol of rejection of this fatalistic view...
...sure, all the legal and diplomatic niceties are often observed. The exceptions sometimes occur because the final decision to extradite lies not with the judiciary, but with the executive. Even if the Costa Rican or Bahamian courts had upheld the U.S. application for Vesco, the executive branch of either country could have overruled or simply ignored the judicial extradition finding. The same is true in the U.S. No matter what the courts say, the Secretary of State has the authority to refuse to give up the fugitive...
...mystical bent feel less threatened by the comet, particularly because of its coincidence with Christmas. "I do not mean to suggest that another Christ will be born," wrote James Grayson Bolen, editor and publisher of the magazine Psychic, "but rather that an inner birth of Christ-like consciousness might occur." Imprisoned Acid Guru Timothy Leary, who was recently the beneficiary of a fund-raising "Comethon" in Santa Cruz, Calif., shares this optimism: "The Comet Starseed [Kohoutek] comes at the right time to return light to the planet earth." Adds Carl Schleicher, whose Washington-based Mankind Research Unlimited Inc. exploits mind...
...Jules Verne. In his 1877 story Hector Servadac, the earth is smashed to bits by a comet, and the protagonists drift off into space on one of the fragments. Statistically, the likelihood of a comet colliding with the earth is extremely remote; scientists calculate that such a collision will occur no more than once every 200 million years...
...University. It stressed the importance of freedom of speech and academic freedom. At the same time, it said that the administration had a responsibility to be responsive to student and faculty demands for change, directing the administration "to maintain an atmosphere in which violations of rights are unlikely to occur." This reciprocal relationship among students, faculty and administrators was vague at best, but at least it existed...