Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FUTURE OF JERUSALEM: "We regard the return of occupied Jerusalem to Arab administration as a very essential matter, and we cannot accept any compromise...
Other figures might have been chosen as Man or Woman of the Year. Yasser Arafat led the Palestine Liberation Organization to a position of power that has radically changed the circumstances of war and peace in the Middle East. Some might regard Alexander Solzhenitsyn as the Man of the Year for his extraordinary defiance in the Soviet Union and his exile from his homeland. Yet none could match the changes and the problems that the men from the oil powers brought to the world...
...been subjected to exhaustive investigations going back into the 18th century. Faced with mounting scientific evidence for evolution, many biblical critics long ago moved away from belief in the "six days" of creation reported in Genesis. More crucially, especially for the Christian doctrine of original sin, they began to regard Adam and Eve as prototypes of humanity, not real people who committed some terrible primordial sin. Genesis to the contrary, said the scholars, the flood that Noah escaped did not cover "all the high mountains under the whole heaven"; nor was Jonah actually swallowed by a "great fish...
...Assembly has succeeded in this task is not whether a majority can be mobilized behind any single draft resolution, but whether those states whose cooperation is vital to implement a decision will support it in fact. "Each time this Assembly makes a decision which a significant minority of members regard as unfair or one-sided, it further erodes vital support for the U.N. among that minority. But the minority which is so often offended may in fact be a practical majority, in terms of its capacity to support this organization and implement its decisions...
...revolutionaries on one condition: "It is essential that they be fighting." Later he reiterates that "armed struggle is necessary" to effect social change, but in between the two statements the Cuban premier claims that "those countries that do not interfere in our internal matters have our highest respect with regard to their internal affairs." The questions put by the interviewers were all concise and even more important, Mankiewicz and Jones followed up on their questions, tried to fill in the gaps usually left by single question-single answer interviews...