Word: seale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State Sen. Alan D. Sisitsky expressed confidence last week that the Judiciary Committee would award decriminalization its seal of approval this year. The Senate chairman of the joint panel, Sisitsky observed, "when the two chairmen agree on an issue, there is little argument about what happens after that." Disagreement does crop up when the talk turns to the bill's chances on the floor this year, however...
...time came in triumph. After his victory in 1972, he went to Camp David and there, in lonely anger, decided to reconstitute his Government by firing loyal workers and convinced himself that his position made him invincible to the Watergate investigators. And Jerry Ford, hardly realizing it, helped to seal his rejection in the 1976 election in the first month of his presidency by pardoning Nixon...
...Carter's approach to the human rights issue, which many countries feel is preachy as well as impractical. To them it is not clear what Carter hopes to achieve, especially because only a handful of the world's countries could ever qualify for the U.S. human rights seal of approval. The policy also seems inconsistent to many because U.S. officials have explained that security considerations could prompt Washington to exempt some human rights offenders from penalties...
...Port Authority's verdict could seal the fate of the 1,400-m.p.h. SST, which the French and British regard as a historic technological triumph. One French aviation expert warns that rejection by New York "would kill the Concorde." Concerned that the Port Authority was about to do just that, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing phoned President Carter last week to warn that banning Concorde could "provoke a very grave crisis in French-American relations...
...gold-domed central mosque on Survival Day weekend. No longer is Fard to be considered divine, according to Wallace, for "God does not eat, he does not drink." Nor is Elijah Muhammad to be considered the "Messenger of God." Wallace's view: "The Prophet Mohammed is the seal of the prophets, and the Koran is the last book." The soft-spoken Wallace Muhammad, who had originally wanted to be an electronics technician, privately questioned Fard's divinity as early as 1955. Twice his father expelled him from the sect for this heresy, but the banishments proved temporary...