Word: soled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reflected a growing sense in Israel that the country faces yet another life-and-death crisis-perhaps the most severe in its brief 26-year history. The Israelis watched with sullen dismay when Arab leaders at the Rabat summit recognized the P.L.O. as the sole official representative of Palestinians everywhere, including those in the Israeli-occupied Gaza and West Bank. They listened hi cold fury as Yasser Arafat at the United Nations (TIME, Nov. 25) purportedly offered them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel must be replaced by a secular Palestinian state...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, says, "The black administrator must be careful not to become an appendage or an expedient--the academic spook who sat by the door. [He] may be forced to become the sole keeper of minority affairs, to the exclusion of other burning affairs in today's academic revolution--or evolution. This possibility is a form of solitary self-confinement...
...Wells' clients, right-wing Author Victor Lasky, who had already produced J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth and Robert F. Kennedy: the Myth and the Man. After a meeting that lasted 15 minutes, Rockefeller asked his brother Laurance to find some financial backers. Laurance, in fact, became the sole backer, contributing $65,000. A corporation was set up in Delaware to handle the publication. But the book had minimal impact on the campaign. Rocky thought so little of the book that he did not get around to reading it until two days before his appearance before the Rules Committee...
Several other witnesses involved in the production of the Goldberg book backed up Rockefeller's testimony. Confirming that he was the sole investor in the book, Laurance Rockefeller admitted that "this is one investment I wish I had not made." The only partially damaging witness against Rocky was Goldberg himself. Bumping into Rockefeller on his way to testify, Goldberg remarked: "You've had a long day." "Thank you for coming," replied Rocky, clapping Goldberg on the shoulder. Calling the book "libelous" (though he plans no lawsuit), Goldberg withdrew his earlier endorsement of Rockefeller for Vice President. The last...
...Bulldogs took over sole possession of first place in the Ivy League with their eighth consecutive victory over the Tigers, the fourth team not to score a touchdown against the Eli defense this season...