Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MBTA bus driver who asked to remain unidentified said "I don't think the union thought it was going to win, but we had to at least voice our opinion. The process worked better because by 11 o'clock [Wednesday night]most of us knew that we weren't going to work...
...Soviet-U.S. negotiations were being "deliberately slowed down" by Washington and warned that U.S. support for human rights in the Soviet Union was "particularly disastrous for mutual confidence." Even as State Department officials were weighing Pravda's words, the Russians displayed a degree of disdain for international opinion unusual even for them, by sentencing Jewish Dissident Vladimir Slepak, 50, to five years' internal exile for "malicious hooliganism." Slepak's offense: he and his wife had unfurled a banner saying LET US GO TO OUR SON IN ISRAEL on the balcony of their apartment as part...
...past six years, Schlafly, 53, has been delivering similar exhortations to similar gatherings, helping to turn public opinion against ERA, which is still three states short of ratification. After passing 35 state legislatures in five years, ERA was defeated last year in Nevada, North Carolina, Florida and Illinois. Last week the amendment lost once again in Illinois when the house narrowly defeated it. With no other state legislature scheduled to vote on ERA, the amendment will expire on March 22, 1979 unless Congress agrees to extend the deadline...
Adds a prominent American Jew who has held posts in four Administrations: "Javits absolutely reflects thoughtful Jewish opinion and the feelings of Americans friendly to Israel. The Israeli response was an evasion; it suggested a real lack of readiness to find an answer...
...hope that Begin will change. Israel's leader truly believes that the West Bank is more important than peace or, to put it another way, that there can be no peace and security without maintaining Israeli troops on the West Bank. Among Israelis, that is a widely shared opinion, and Begin loses no points at home for his adamant stand...