Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President also scotched talk of an immediate summit meeting with the Russians, though he did not rule it out for the future. "I take a dim view of what some have called instant summitry," he told the White House reporters. What is more, he explained, "I have long felt that before we have meetings of summitry with the Soviet leaders, it is vitally important that we have talks with our European allies, which is what we are doing...
...Richard Nixon, who has had little time to act on the strong recommendations of his environmental task force, the Santa Barbara disaster was a reminder of the ineffective, 15-year-old laws that rule offshore drilling. Nixon promised to put fresh teeth in federal regulations "so that this kind of incident will not occur again." But his Secretary of the Interior did little to reinforce the President's pledge. Nixon had sent Walter Hickel to the disaster area in a presidential jet. At first, Hickel impressed Santa Barbarans by persuading all oil companies in the area to suspend operations...
...College and the Faculty are finding themselves confronted by a tangle of administrative problems. The most serious concerns scholarships: when a scholarship recipient is placed on probation he can lose up to $500 in stipend from the University. The SFAC now has asked the Faculty to exempt from this rule 13 scholarship students involved in the Paine Hall...
Picking up a phone, he checked with the commanders of Spain's seven military districts. All but one demanded that a state of emergency be declared-and the one exception, Barcelona's leader, said he would accept nothing less than a return to full military rule. Armed with this information, Carrero consulted the three military ministers and proceeded to draw up the emergency decree. Bypassing the Cabinet's liberals, Carrero then went directly to Franco and convinced the generalissimo that the declaration was vital. Next day, at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting, Franco ordered that the decree...
...into souls," the girl wrote hundreds of pages of grotesque "confessions": the devil visited her several times a day; he had walked beside her, his black fur glistening, at Holy Communion and often made love to her; he had promised her she could have ten sexually diverse husbands and rule the world with Satan. After months of piecemeal punishment, Bernadette's Calvary finally came on May 14, 1966. During a four-hour exorcism session, interrupted only for rest and prayer, the couple and four other men beat and tormented the girl with walking sticks, a riding crop...