Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These sessions may prove to be last rites. Beirut, already ruined as a financial center, seems doomed to continuing violence. The rest of Lebanon can only wonder what the outcome will be. At one of the private meetings held by Karami late last week, Ibrahim Koleilat, who heads the Nasserites, explained his intentions politely but forcefully. His Moslem fighters will press on until they have defeated the Phalangists once and for all, said Koleilat. "We have had ten cease-fires and ten violations. Let's get this over with and have one cease-fire that means something...
...Phillips baffled her guards by chasing butterflies. Everyone was interrogated 15 or 20 times. The Communists always asked the same questions: Who were they? What was their profession? Their rank? Had the U.S. financed their work in Southeast Asia? Until the very end, the North Vietnamese seemed determined to prove that the missionaries were in the pay of the Central Intelligence Agency. At times the prisoners managed to turn the tables on their interrogators. Mrs. Betty Mitchell, a Christian Missionary Alliance member who had worked in the Ban Me Thuot area for nearly two decades, told the camp commandant...
That sounds like whistling in the dark, though it tends to prove the supposition that it is older folks, whose kids have left home, who are the principal deserters. Be that as it may, the networks are expected to try to buy back this audience - and ratings leadership - with late-season specials and hit theatrical movies. CBS throws That's Entertainment!, surefire nostalgia fare, into the Beacon Hill breach on Nov. 18. Meantime, the permanently disaffected will be found over at the independent channels, gnarled fingers twiddling the dial in hopes of glimpsing Matt Dillon, Chief Ironsides...
...Federal Government, far from being limited, is bigger than ever and will get even bigger as it takes on unprecedented tasks of planning. "But it will need to become far more efficient and authoritative if it is to prove capable of making the difficult and subtle trade-offs which now confront us-between environmental purity and energy supply, for example...
...whole thing is the Freedom of Information Act. If we can just get our hands on the FBI files, I'm convinced we can prove the innocence of our parents." The speaker was Michael Meeropol, the eldest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's two sons--Meeropol, and his brother, Robert, who were adopted a few years after their parents were electrocuted in 1953, vehemently oppose "liberal explanations" of the Rosenberg case. "I know there's a tendency to adopt a middle-of-the-road analysis now and argue that the Rosenbergs were probably small-time espionage agents who certainly didn...