Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservationists want the Senate's Interior Committee to question Hickel closely on 14 counts. These range from a natural-gas franchise given one of his companies to charges that, while he was Governor, the state built roads for the benefit of his properties. Hickel's critics complain that he has been far too friendly with Alaska's oil operators to be given the Interior Secretary's wide regulatory powers over the entire $50 billion petroleum industry. Hickel has also alienated many Northeastern Senators by his opposition to a scheme for cutting fuel costs in New England...
...Arabs have always insisted. Instead, the Soviets propose a package that would include Israeli withdrawal-to what lines the Soviets do not clearly say-along with declarations by Arab states of nonbelligerency. The Russians support guaranteed use of the Strait of Tiran by Israel, but leave open the question of the Suez canal, loosely tying it to the beginning of at least a partial settlement of the Arab-refugees problem...
Until now, Beirut has tacitly allowed the fedayeen free rein for propaganda and recruiting, so long as they refrained from training in the country or operating across the border. Karami's vague promise "to work by all means to serve the Palestine question" seemed to indicate no intention of changing that policy, if he is given a choice. He may not be. The Israelis insist that the fedayeen have bases in Lebanon and have used them for military action against Israel. Lebanon denies this. What is almost certain is that Lebanon is being used as a transit area...
...famous speech that immigrants have made Britons "feel like strangers in their own country" and spoke of a vision of Britain "foaming with much blood." It was the first time that Powell-or any other politician in recent British history-had made such a major issue of the delicate question of race. The results horrified moderates. Rank-and-file workingmen, normally Labor Party stalwarts, downed tools to demonstrate their support for Tory Powell. Nearly 100,000 letters poured into his office, the vast majority in hearty agreement with his speech. Political leaders of both parties quickly declared Powell...
...label of racist, or racialist as some Britons say. "What I would take 'racialist' to mean is a person who believes in the inherent inferiority of one race of mankind to another, and who acts and speaks in that belief," he explains. "So the answer to the question of whether I am a racialist is no." Moreover, he scoffs at the claims of his critics that his volatile choice of words encourages racist reactions in his listeners. Instead, he argues, "I am a safety valve." Powell has even conceded that immigrants are "no more malevolent or more prone...