Word: orients
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Asian leaders are now well aware that Congress has the power to oppose any new U.S. military involvement in the Orient. Thus the uncertainties of the congressional response to some future challenge to an American commitment complicated Ford's attempts to sound reassuring. Singapore's Lee, who has called the events in Viet Nam and Cambodia "an unmitigated disaster," sampled sentiment on Capitol Hill and was far from reassured. As a result, in his toast at the formal state dinner given for him at the White House, Lee bluntly urged the President and Congress to "speak...
...what more can I say?--I was a victim of my elitist preconceptions. There I was all winter, reviewing highbrow good-but-not-great movies like Amarcord, Stavisky, Murder on the Orient Express and Godfather II, while all the time a real masterpiece was playing in Danvers. And I would have missed it, too, if it hadn't been for the way the Liberty Tree Mall beckoned out of the mist. As it was, I loved The Towering Inferno and didn't have to dig very deep into my satchel of critical responses to discover...
Murder on the Orient Express...
Avarita L. Hanson '75, one of the group's organizers, said the group--as yet unnamed--will orient itself toward "political action, especially among black alumnae" to increase the number of black women in the Radcliffe administration and on the Faculty...
...Mesquita Neto, took over the paper. He has continually defied the government's request for self-censor ship. Instead, when the censors cut sto ries, he filled the blank space with excerpts from Poet Luis Vaz de Camoes epic work Os Lusiadas, about Portuguese adventures in the Orient. The paper has also resisted in other ways...