Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority decisions." Perhaps. It all depends on whose majority he is talking about. After all, the Student Assembly referendum last year revealed that about 3400 undergraduates polled wanted the University to establish a study abroad program that would offer academic credit and satisfy language requirements. Only 19 faculty members sit on the Council...
...efforts to block certain major water projects, push large-scale synthetic fuels development, and station a new MX mobile missile system in Nevada and Utah. He agreed that the Governors should have veto power over where synfuel plants are to be placed in their states, that a Westerner should sit on the proposed Energy Security Corporation if Congress approves its creation, and that the states should get federal help if large numbers of either synfuel or missile construction workers should flood particular localities...
...Zionism and imperialism." That was a reference to the fact that newsmen in Tehran had paid little attention to an ambush by Kurdish rebels in which 52 Islamic militiamen were killed. But if the Western press is not to be trusted, why then did the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini sit for an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci? One factor, explained Nassiros-sadat Salami, the Iranian translator of Fallaci s book, Interview with History who served as interpreter, was Khomeini's acquaintance with a devastating interview that Fallaci had done with the Shah in 1973. The Shah, deeply offended...
...term, Armstrong was convicted of murder in connection with the bombing of the Army Math Research Center in 1970. He has been called "the bitter fruit of a bitter season." But his story means far more; Karl Armstrong symbolizes the progression of the anti-war movement from leaflets to sit-ins to dynamite. Clubbed at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, he vowed never to be in such a helpless position again: "If they were going to make war on us, we were going to make war on them...
After spending two weeks in Russian and Germany, Beckford travelled to the Squaw Valley Olympic training camp but the second day there she injured her foot, which forced her to sit out the cross country season...