Word: reportion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your report on South Africa, Prime Minister Botha [Dec. 3] defines apartheid as "good neighborliness," whatever that means. His comments on South Africa's blatantly racist policies sound as petty and fatuous as they really are. That bit that said that acts such as the immorality act had "existed all these years to protect colored and black women from being exploited by ruthless white men" generated cynical laughter...
Personal financial concerns were also troubling many Americans. Forty-three percent said they worried a lot about keeping up with their bills and nearly a third now report major anxiety about losing their jobs. Two-thirds said they were worried about an energy shortage...
...which they felt would be too isolated and vulnerable. Their agreement was extracted by a British concession in a numbers game. It gave the Front forces a 16th camp in the Rhodesian heartland and empowered the newly arrived British Governor, Lord Soames, to designate additional concentrations, if the guerrillas report in the large numbers that they claim. The current British estimate is 20,000 men; the Front says it has some...
...nominated by President Nixon as a judge for a U.S. district court in New York in April 1971. Two months later, in the most celebrated decision of his career, he ruled against the Government in its attempt to suppress the publication of the Pentagon papers, a highly classified report detailing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Its publication, wrote Gurfein, "would [not] vitally affect the security of the nation, except in the general framework of embarrassment. A cantankerous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve freedom of expression and the right of the people to know...
...report on last week's hearing will go for consideration to the Cardinals who govern the doctrinal congregation, then to Pope John Paul. A judgment will be months in coming. The Vatican could merely issue a formal warning if it finds "false teachings." It could also bar Schillebeeckx from teaching at any Catholic university or ask the Dominican order to suspend him from priestly functions, as happened to France's Jacques Pohier earlier this year for doubting the Resurrection of Christ, among other things...