Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story left me frustrated in the realization that the American public must determine the Navy's role in our overall defense program. If the pros can't decide, how can an average landlubber who isn't even sure of the difference between radar and sonar be expected to come up with answers to profound technological questions...
Tindemans' complaint reflected a feeling of uneasiness about the growing French military role in Africa. France now has the second largest external force on the continent-after the Cubans. In addition to the legionnaires in Shaba, Paris has 7,000 troops garrisoned in such former possessions as the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Gabon and Djibouti. French forces also serve with the United Nations in Lebanon and twice recently-in Mauritania and Chad-have come to the assistance of governments facing intense guerrilla pressure. The increasingly visible presence of Giscard's troops has earned them the unflattering sobriquet "the French...
Orlov's "crime," in the Kremlin's eyes, was his role in organizing a Moscow committee to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord on European Security and Cooperation. The committee prepared a number of documents, petitions and open addresses charging that "many hundreds" of Soviet citizens were "languishing in prisons and camps [for] political, ethical and religious beliefs." Free emigration and reunification of families, according to Orlov's group, were still being severely hampered, even though these rights were endorsed by the Helsinki accord. Introducing these reports as evidence...
Greyhounds begin training for the races at the age of ten months. Though prohibited in some states, live jack rabbits are used as "bait" during training sessions. The dogs chase the rabbit by instinct, says trainer Bill Scott, who works for Solimeno. Thus, the trainer's role is reduced to one of care and conditioning of the animals, who are fed a strict diet of horsemeat, beef, meal and vitamins...
...other hand, Qoboza said, many people believe corporations "can play a vital role in transforming that society." However, he added that outside of "a twinge of conscience here and there," foreign companies operating in South Africa have done nothing to improve the situation of the nation's blacks...