Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alexandria, Va., courtroom last week was whether top CIA officials could hold an ex-spy to his written agreement to let them censor anything that he wrote about his undercover experiences. Testified CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "If he is able to get away with this, it will prove to other people that we have no control." In other words, the agency wanted to chill into silence other potential telltale spooks...
...They are opposed by the Carter Administration, which insists that a price floor higher than 14.4? per Ib. would be inflationary. Last week the battle turned ugly when makers of corn fructose (a sugar substitute) accused the Administration of withholding documents needed to prove their charge that Carter's 1977 sugar policy was illegal...
...more extreme fear among blacks was expressed in an Atlanta speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "The tax rebellion is now being used as the new code word-like busing and Bakke-for racism and classism," he told a national P.T.A. convention. The revolt, he claimed later, may prove to be "the greatest threat the black middle class has ever known...
...official policy. But members of the diplomatic corps as well as of volunteer groups have witnessed numerous incidents of demonstrators being beaten during arrests. "I know torture happens," says Hugh Harcort, 48, an American professor of cultural studies at Bir Zeit University. "I don't know how you prove it, but if I see one of my students picked up by the Israelis and I see that he is injured when he is released, what am I supposed to think?" Amnesty International has asked Israel for an investigation of alleged-ill treatment of certain Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners...
That song made Bob Seger a national star after a decade of hard traveling. Now he has a fine new record, Stranger in Town, out just a few weeks and already following an unerring trajectory to the headier regions of the charts. It should prove that this particular local boy is not only a national star but something of a vital natural resource...