Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rheault's replacement, Colonel Alexander Lemberes, said he was just as puzzled as everyone else. He had only 15 minutes to pack after being notified that he was replacing Rheault, and subsequently broke his right ankle in a hasty attempt to qualify as a parachutist -something all Green Berets must...
...born Chief Justice James Skinner, a longtime friend, and one of 600 of the country's 65,000 whites who have bothered to become Zambian citizens. Unruffled, Skinner backed up his fellow judge: the ruling had not been politically motivated, he replied. Skinner asserted the judiciary's right to "criticize the executive or its individual servants." Kaunda's office retaliated with a statement that sounded threatening: "The President now knows where the judiciary stands, and he will deal with the matter...
...lock dangling over the forehead. For three dollars, one may acquire a replica of the Emperor's will on pseudo parchment with an imitation red seal. Says an official of the Bonapartist political party that has ruled Ajaccio for over a century: "When we Corsicans put our right hand inside our coat like the Emperor, it's on our heart. Others are feeling for their wallet...
...with fume-belching internal-combustion engines, and the elimination of certain chemical fertilizers, which will make farming less efficient and less profitable but also less dangerous to the environment. "The important thing," he says, "is for the public to sense the seriousness of the issues. When they do, the right legislation will be passed...
...Spirit. Not every ecologist is as active as Commoner. Some are ill-equipped to influence political decisions in the right directions. Some risk making ecology more of a passing fad than a permanent force in U.S. life. Nevertheless, Americans can expect to hear many more expert warnings about the damage they are doing to their environment. Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover has described ecology as "the key science for correctly assessing the negative aspects of technology." And the new Jeremiahs are right in the spirit of the old: "I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof...