Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...craft downed by Ho Chi Minh's fire. Seven of last week's total were felled in one day, the most so far in any 24-hour period.* One reason for the mounting air casualties is new tactics by the Communists with their surface-to-air missiles. Prior to the Hanoi-Haiphong oil raids, the SAMs came up only one or two at a time. Now they are being released in volleys of six to eight, making them more difficult to dodge; a total of 40 SAMs was fired last week. In addition, the Communists have developed...
...have published without imprimatur, that the church is making a special case out of him, and that he had been "tried in absentia by anonymous judges." Contending that the order "goes completely against the Vatican Council's statement on freedom of religion, conscience and expression," DuBay argued that "prior censorship is a ghost that has been hovering around the Catholic Church since the Spanish Inquisition...
...question has lingered: Was there collusion among Britain, France and Israel? At the height of the crisis, Selwyn Lloyd, then British foreign secretary, denied any "prior agreement." Two months later, Prime Minister Anthony Eden denied any "dishonorable conspiracy," even claimed that Britain was unaware that Israel was planning an attack. Washington suspected otherwise, and so did just about everyone else, including British Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. "We must wait," Gaitskell counseled. "If there was collusion, the motives of the men who practiced it were so various that they are bound to start giving one another away...
...these troubling cases were direct results of the Supreme Court's sweeping decision in Miranda v. Arizona (TIME, June 24). Applying the Fifth Amendment guarantee against selfincrimination, the court ruled that every suspect must now be "warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, and that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning, if he so desires...
...activity). One new suggestion is that urine somehow invaded the breathing lines, but the Gemini 10 spacemen quickly vetoed that theory, insisting that the eye-swelling fumes were in no way similar to urine. One guess now is that the special antifog mist wiped on both space-suit visors prior to the EVA reacted chemically with particles of lithium hydroxide (used to purify the astronauts' breathing system...