Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard therefore to understand why our proposals have provoked such outspoken displeasure on the part of responsible U.S. statesmen. Attempts have been made to portray them as nothing but pure propaganda. Anyone even slightly familiar with the matter would easily see that behind our proposals there are most serious intentions and not just an attempt to influence public opinion. All real efforts to limit nuclear weapons began with a ban on tests --just recall the 1963 treaty that was a first major step in that direction. A complete end to nuclear tests would halt the nuclear arms race...
...such speedy attention to an incident involving U.S. Marines while thousands of cases involving rightist death-squad attacks on Salvadorans remain unsolved. More specifically, many Salvadorans want to see arrests made in the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who had been one of the region's most outspoken clergymen. Last week the government announced that it was reopening the investigation into Romero's murder...
DIED. Ruth Gordon, 88, outspoken actress whose seven-decade career first peaked in the 1930s and '40s, when she reaped acclaim in such works as Broadway's A Doll's House (1937) and Hollywood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), then crested again in her 70s when she became a cult figure, especially for young people, in such offbeat films as Where's Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (1971) and, most notably, Rosemary's Baby (1968), for which she won a supporting actress Oscar; of a stroke; in Edgartown, Mass. Talented in many modes, she also wrote two hit plays...
Koocher has been an outspoken member of the committee since 1973, when at the age of 24 he became its youngest member even. The Blue Cross social worker has been active in coordinating hiring and financial aspects of the school system, and actively lobbied to oust former Superintendent William C. Lannon...
...appointments round out the Spence administration, making it one with an unusual amount of prior experience in running the University. The only novice on the staff is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Steven E. Ozment, who since assuming his post last fall has become one of the most outspoken University Hall officials...