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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights anywhere, and that the U.N. can fulfill its peace-keeping mission only if it remembers and applies its own 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Pope also denounced the arms race ("The continual preparations for war ... mean taking the risk that some time, somewhere, somehow, someone can set in motion the terrible mechanism of general destruction"). He prayed that "every kind of concentration camp any where on earth may once and for all be done away with" and condemned "the various kinds of torture and oppression, either physical or moral, carried out ... under the pretext of internal 'security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...played our game and set up for our shots," MacAusland said. "We played control hockey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field Leads Stickwomen Past Cornell | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

With their training already set back by the past week's cold, rainy weather, the Crimson, whose record now stands at 3-2, will have to rely more on luck than hard work to bounce back for Tuesday's Greater Boston Championships...

Author: By David Atkins, | Title: Green Edges Women Harriers | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

However, the plane didn't want to go anymore than we did. After a half hour of watching the pilot stroke this 727's nose and pet it on the wings, we finally boarded, set to touch down in Syracuse 50 minutes later--just in time to miss the opening gun in Ithaca...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Long Day's Journey Into Ithaca: Meeting the Big Red Machine | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

Many of those worries seem to have been quieted, though, despite a noticeable lack of support from movement celebrities. Demonstrators stayed steadfastly nonviolent, and the police response shocked many of the original opponents of the action. Several members of the Coalition for Non-Violence at Seabrook, originally set up to oppose the occupiers tactics, carried their sleeping bags to the demonstrators' camp Saturday night after watching the evening news...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Seabrook Protest -- A Victory of Sorts | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

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