Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says New York University's Lawrence Schiffman: "The material could be published in a very short time if the circle of scholars were enlarged." That is prevented by a system of control that dates from the early discoveries in what was then part of Jordan. After rapid publication of the first finds by Israelis, Jordan authorized creation of a select group of antiquities experts, all Christians, with exclusive rights to study and publish the rest of the manuscripts. The favored scholars assigned the various texts among themselves. As for the scrolls, some eventually went on display at West Jerusalem...
...there's more to come, warned Thornburgh, saying, "This probe is part of an expanding Department of Justice crackdown on white-collar crime in all its various guises, from Wall Street to LaSalle Street to Main Street. The activities uncovered at these exchanges, the largest of their type in the world, cannot be tolerated...
...Encouraged by their success, more and more lawyers and organizations are entering the struggle. After lengthy legal battles this year, the Alexandra Five, charged with treason for trying to create autonomous local government structures, were acquitted, and last year the Sharpeville Six, sentenced to hang for their part in the murder of a black township official, obtained commutations of their death sentences. Perhaps the biggest advance is the recent working paper of a government-appoint ed law commission, which has proposed a South African Bill of Rights, an end to apartheid laws and an equal vote for all South Africans...
...Marine is killed defusing a bomb near Beirut airport. He was part of the multinational force newly arrived in Lebanon...
...female reporter who takes part in a pro-choice march is reprimanded by her editors. Another woman, a food critic, is upset because her employer's policy against political activism all but prohibits her from publicly expressing her views on abortion -- an issue that she will probably never have to cover. Across the country, the heating up of the abortion issue in recent months has confronted reporters with an acute professional dilemma: How can they personally take a public stand on a question they feel strongly about without seeming to compromise the objectivity of the publication for which they work...