Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alone the spirit, of civil rights laws." Blacks see Nixon, claimed Clifford Alexander Jr., former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, as "actively against our goals." The National Urban League's Harold Sims charged that under Nixon "the nation is still in the grip of a not silent but selfish majority...
Moments later, the radio of the Johnny Express fell silent. In a flagrant breach of freedom of the seas, the Cubans rammed and boarded the freighter, then towed it to a port on Cuba's north coast. The Coast Guard helicopter never arrived. Partly because the ship was sailing under the Panamanian flag and partly because the incident took place outside U.S. territorial waters, the Coast Guard delayed its response to the call for more than an hour...
...political. The city stands at the heart of the bitter dispute about the future of the occupied territories captured by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967. During that war, Israeli troops seized the Jordanian-held Old City and other Arab sectors. Even before the guns went silent, the Israelis declared that, whatever the fate of the other occupied territories, a reunited Jerusalem had returned to Israel forever. Confirming that view, two weeks after the war Israel's Parliament decreed that Jordanian Jerusalem had been annexed in an "administrative unification." Since then the residents of Jerusalem-who include...
...nearly 64, Izzy Stone admitted in his farewell letter that "the compulsion to cover the universe in four pages has become too heavy a burden." Still, he will hardly be silent. Stone has sold the Bi-Weekly subscription list -which has grown from 5,300 in 1953 to 71,000 today-to the New York Review of Books; he will join the Review in January as contributing editor. He plans to write "more articles in depth" like his five part series on "The American Military Establishment" and excerpts from his book The Killings at Kent State-How Murder Went Unpunished...
...probe the surface and the atmosphere, will never come close enough in its far-ranging 860-mile by 10,600-mile orbit to photograph any life forms. Although the Russians have announced that their Mars 2 lander carried a Soviet pennant to the Martian surface, they have been silent about the performance of any life detectors or other instruments it might have carried...