Word: references
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...describe them as being in their 40s and having glassy, hollow-looking eyes. According to a flyer they distributed at one meeting in California, they claim to have come from the same "kingdom" as Jesus Christ. Jesus, the flyer read, left earth "in a cloud of light (what humans refer to as UFOs) and moves and returns in the same manner ... There are two individuals here now who have also come from the next kingdom, incarnate as humans ... and will soon demonstrate that same proof of overcoming death." The Two expect to be assassinated sometime soon, rise from the dead...
When Washington did finally issue a statement on the executions, it was carefully phrased to refer to the acts by the terrorists as well as the death sentences, expressing regret at "the cycle of violence that led to this tragic out come." U.S. officials pointedly and persuasively note that those executed were shot not for political or ideological "crimes" but because they had cold bloodedly killed policemen. To be sure, the hasty trial they received in Spain's military courts scarcely qualifies as justice according to Anglo-American standards. Yet, the terrorist organizations to which they belonged have openly...
...forceful Josephine Abaijah, 32, who is the only woman in the 100-member Papua New Guinea Parliament, trumpets independence for the southern region of Papua. A more serious threat to the new nation comes from separatists on the outlying island of Bougainville. Coal-black farmers and miners who disparagingly refer to lighter-skinned mainlanders as "redskins," the Bougainville secessionists argue that their island has stronger ethnic and geographic ties to the nearby Solomons, a British protectorate, than to New Guinea. A break with Bougainville would cripple the new country; the island is the site of Papua New Guinea...
Professors in the Government Department refer to Kearns as a "very special person." And everything about her tenure case has been unusual, an exception to the traditional standards of tenure. If her appointment eventually goes through, she will be the second woman in the department's history, one of the few to rise directly from an assistant professorship to a tenured chair, the department's youngest member, and the only person the Gov faculty ever approved before publication of at least one scholarly work...
...Owen under very different circumstances. In 1940, his arm badly wounded in a machine-gun attack near Lille, France, Peach escaped by sea from Dunkirk and was hospitalized for nearly 2½ years. "My father was shot up in the first World War, and I used to hear him refer to the political slogan, 'A country fit for heroes to come back to.' Instead, when I was released, I was offered a clerical job for the magnificent sum of $8 a week. Well, I went to Rubery Owen as a spot welder and became involved with the union...