Word: owen
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...listed as missing. Apparently, he came back a day early and was among those sleeping in the doomed building. Late last week, his family was told he had died. Last week, too, TIME received a letter from a colleague of Crudale's in Beirut, Lance Corporal J.B. Owen of Virginia Beach, Va. "With our job not yet finished," he wrote, "we must not leave this country in such a critical state. Marines never leave a job undone." Owen will not see that task completed. He also is among the confirmed dead in Beirut...
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...public--by changing the criteria for classification--and over the type and amount of foreign information which is allowed to enter the country. They have categorized more films as "political propaganda" and prevented foreign speakers--visitors like the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende and Reverend Ian Paisley and Owen Carron, spokesmen for respectively the radical Protestant and Roman Catholic groups in Northern Ireland--with anti-American views from accepting invitations to speak at American universities. And The New York Times reported several weeks ago on yet one more infringement of rights--legally requiring a lifetime "prepublication review...
...Owen named them, "the old Lie," few periods of history seem to have relished war more, or taken to it more readily. From the array of wars that have ravaged Europe, the Middle East, the Congo, Korea, Malaya, Viet Nam and Central America in our times, with new sites added almost daily, one might conclude that the main characterizing idea of the past 60 years was war itself. (Who could have dreamed up the war in the Falklands?) It follows that what will have mattered most about these years is the apparent universal desire to knock each other...
...Owen G. Gingerich, professor of Astronomy and the History of Science...