Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week of coup and countercoup apparently began with murder. Late Sunday night a number of prominent political prisoners, including two former Prime Ministers and other followers of Sheik Mujib, were murdered in Dacca jail. As news of the massacre spread through the city, crowds blamed the crime on the ruling majors...
...impartial lottery system. Under such a choice system it is virtually impossible that everyone will end up living where he wants, but most people will get one of their top choices. And since the elimination of master's choice the disappointment inherent in the system has been spread in the fairest possible...
Supporters of ERA must take some responsibility for the amendment's defeat because they did not direct enough of their campaign efforts toward the large majority of voters who are working class. But last week's defeat can be largely attributed to the effective spread of misinformation by anti-ERA groups about the changes an equal rights amendment would bring about...
...Myung Moon. "I am your brain." The latter statement is quite literally true for a growing coterie of young American converts, who regard the South Korean cult leader (TIME, Sept. 30, 1974) as the second Christ. Asking no questions, they obediently hawk candy and flowers, raising millions to spread the faith. They exist on a shoestring, while Moon, 55, lives in lordly fashion in a 25-room mansion in New York's Westchester County...
...scramble to success, Reeves has had to spread himself thin-too thin, according to Harper's editors, who did not renew his one-year arrangement with the magazine in 1972. But Reeves has recently been trying to reduce his commitments. Last May he left the TV job with relief ("I felt like Barbara Walters in drag"), and plans to write only one more book about politics; it will be on the 1976 campaign. "After that, maybe I'll get a cabin and write fiction," Reeves says. "I love politics. It's more interesting than the National Football...