Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasons for this decision--I mean the real ones, not the ones dished up for public consumption--have not yet seen the light of day. Because I do not teach the fiction course, I possess no special knowledge of these matters. But I have reason to believe that there may well be a very interesting story here: a story in which professional jealousy, personal vendetta, career ambition and craven capitulation to bureaucratic politics have combined to deny freshmen the one writing course they really want to take...
...human rights violations in the early days of President Carter's May 1977 crusade, 12 million dollars in economic aid in 1977 and 1978 were nevertheless added to a total of more than $300 million that Nicaragua has received from the U.S. government since the second World War. The reason was that some of Somoza's powerful friends in Congress, notably Representatives Charles Wilson (D-Tex.) and John Murphy (D-N.Y.), Somoza's roommate at West Point, threatened to slash foreign aid to several countries if our trusted anti-Communist ally in Nicaragua was slighted. That annual shipment...
...example, said Simes, the Soviets had good reason to be pleased with the Shah of Iran: he bought Soviet arms, "paying very quickly and in hard currency," and he supplied 45% of the natural gas used by three Soviet republics near the Iranian border. Also, the Soviets could not be happy about the rise of a militant Islamic nationalist movement on their borders, since the U.S.S.R. harbors millions of fervent Muslims...
...down in seeming stalemate, one pressing question was: Who was punishing whom? When the Chinese proposed talks "as soon as possible" to end the conflict, Hanoi swiftly denounced the offer as a "trick" intended to disguise Peking's plans for "war intensification." The Vietnamese may well have had reason for this cocky rejection of a truce. The Soviet Union last week cranked up its warnings of possible intervention another notch by demanding that "the aggressor be made to get out immediately." Meanwhile, there was a strong feeling in Hanoi that the Chinese were facing an awkward dilemma. They...
Peremptory challenges allow attorneys to reject usually up to 16 potential jurors without giving a reason for the dismissals...