Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy's air attack brought the U.S. closer to actual warfare with an Arab nation than it had ever been. It also seemed to place the Syrians in a somewhat stronger psychological position in regard to the U.S. Syrian authorities turned over the body of the dead pilot, Lieut. Mark A. Lange, 26, of Fraser, Mich., to the Lebanese Army for relay to the U.S. command in Beirut. But the Syrian Defense Minister, Major General Mustafa Tlas, said his government would not surrender the captured pilot, Lieut. Robert O. Goodman, 27, of Portsmouth, N.H., until "the war has ended...
...disaster has called attention to what many airline pilots regard as a critical safety deficiency at the airport. Although Madrid handles some 11 million passengers annually, it lacks the ground control radar system common at other major airports. The radar, which allows controllers to keep track of plane movements on the Tarmac even in zero visibility, might have averted last week's tragedy...
Crimson: With regard to El Salvador, is there any consensus in Washington for dealing with El Salvador...
...same argument holds with regard to military connections that Israel has with South Africa. I do not deny that Israel has such connections. Neither do I condone them. No one should be trading with or investing in South Africa. However, to single Israel out for its relationship with South Africa, as Louis does, is a type of scapegoating that is nothing short of hypocritical. Louis syas. "The U.N. attacks on Israeli ties to South Africa will undoubtably worsen so long as Israel continues to sell weapons to such countries as South Africa...." I don't doubt this. I also...
...secular 20th century, the religious impulse that in the past produced such musical masterworks as Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis has been in short supply. Many contemporary composers, it seems, regard themselves as too sophisticated to write frankly sacred music, or are simply unmoved by the realm of doctrine or liturgy. At a time when nothing is too shocking to be put onstage, spirituality has replaced sexuality as the last taboo...