Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive to oust Somoza. Their daring raid of a diplomatic reception for the American ambassador on December 27, 1974, and subsequent kidnapping of 11 members of Somoza's inner circle--for which they received the release of 14 political prisoners, $1 million in ransom, a lengthy radio statement, and flight to Cuba--led Somoza to order martial law and censorship of the press on the same night. Crowds lined up on the roads leading to the airport, applauding the Sandinistas, but Somoza did not lift the sanctions until mid- 1977. The Sandanistas also set the stage for the massive revolt...
...strengthening our position to assure access to the sea lanes and the oil. As long as there is no interference with them, nobody has anything to worry about; the increased presence of the U.S. has nothing to do with the internal affairs of other people. Everybody would read this statement and know damn well that if something occurred the military force was at least there as an option. I think we need to create options of power...
Atonishingly, the Carter Administration could not even seem to agree on whether the week's worries added up to anything worth fretting about at all. In an unseemly intramural squabble, Department of Energy officials kept pressing the White House to make a strong statement on the need to conserve oil supplies, while Treasury aides urged that the President say nothing for fear of spooking currency dealers abroad into dumping dollars. Yet it seemed more likely that a determined U.S. policy to conserve would strengthen the dollar by showing the world that the nation was taking steps to correct...
...principal issue before the University "is whether we should go further and use the University as a means of expressing moral disapproval or as a weapon in our fight against injustice even if we threaten to injure the academic functions of the institution," Bok's statement reads...
Ross D. Boylan '81, also a promoter of a J.P. Stevens boycott, said yesterday that Bok's belief that universities should avoid taking moral or political stands is "an excuse for inaction." Harvard in effect makes a moral statement in refusing to comment on a moral, ethical or political question, Boylan said, adding, "Harvard can't remain above it all as Bok claims...