Word: rifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rift. Incredibly, the Interior Department balked. In a state of confusion since the firing of several BIA officials and the illness of Secretary Rogers Morton, who is being treated for prostate cancer, Interior had reacted to the entire Wounded Knee affair with stubbornness. Marvin Franklin, the acting director of the BIA and himself an Indian, said that he would rather quit than talk with AIM leaders. "This is strictly a law-enforcement problem, a Justice Department matter," he told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith. "How can you deal with criminals? How can you handle revolutionaries...
...members of the national executive board showed up either. But the middle-echelon Teamsters packed the house. Looking tanned and as fit as ever, Hoffa bounced out of a red Cadillac with his wife Jo, obviously enjoying the movie-premiere spectacle of TV lights and photographers. He disclaimed any rift with his "old friend Fitz," but when asked by a news reporter if the restriction on his release amounted to a doublecross, Hoffa said, "Nobody knows what happened, but it wasn't part of the papers I signed in prison...I probably would have been out in 1974 with...
There has always been a disconcerting rift in Jean Kerr's plays between the witty, wise and thoroughly honest statements she makes about domestic life and the artificial plot mechanics she adopts for the sake of happy endings...
Since then, Kissinger's reputation has become somewhat tarnished, and Washington observers have seized every opportunity to search for hints of a rift between the President and his foreign policy adviser-including last week's congenial ceremony at which Nixon awarded a Distinguished Service Medal to Kissinger's longtime deputy, General Alexander H. Haig Jr. But in the end, obviously, Kissinger's reputation-and his place in history-will stand on what finally happens in Paris...
...earthly affairs entirely. He would have her reinterpret her myths in order to reassert the importance of the transcendent. The Church, he says, is the only institution in a position to alleviate the despair which he sees all around us, since only religious myths can heal the rift between technology and nature...