Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the younger generation in the Soviet Union has not suffered enough to develop that intense spiritual development of which Solzhenitsyn speaks. Otherwise why are so many of them willing to risk arrest for their materialism by exchanging icons or other family heirlooms for blue jeans, pantyhose or albums of "intolerable music" by the Rolling Stones...
...justice. There is some obscure political purpose." U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon told U.S. correspondents in Moscow that he thought the Soviet intent was clear: "This is an effort to get a message across to you people that unless you confine your quotations to official Soviet sources, you run a risk of being charged with slander...
...Salisbury Agreement, the white electorate must vote in a referendum whether to accept that settlement. As a last-ditch maneuver, Smith could conceivably use this provision as an excuse to declare the March 3 agreement null and void and to restore himself as Rhodesia's Prime Minister. The risk of that course, obviously, is that it might well drive the black moderate leaders and their supporters over to the guerrillas' side...
...answer is civil liberties gospel: if you fail to protect even the most odious and unpopular speech, you risk undermining all free speech. Basic to the First Amendment, the lesson is clear enough to the courts, which have struck down Skokie's attempts to keep the Nazis from demonstrating. Last week the Supreme Court refused to stop Nazi picketing planned for this Sunday in Skokie...
...startlingly varied finches, that the young Charles Darwin found the key evidence for his theory of evolution. Yet these unique biological enclaves, long despoiled by pirates and passing sailors, are still under attack. Thousands of peering, prodding, picture-taking tourists now visit the Galápagos annually, at considerable risk to the islands' frail ecology. To assess the damage already done to this irreplaceable showcase of evolution, a UNESCO team visited the islands this month. TIME Associate Editor Frederic Golden was with the group and sent this report...