Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue was South Africa. Under steadily building pressure from students, University officials in April found themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to make a comprehensive statement on just what they planned to do with Harvard's multi-million dollar investments in companies operating in that country -- investments that students said were bolstering the apartheid system...
...three-day appearance in a jammed House hearing room, guarded by 30 U.S. marshals, was nonetheless enlightening. Understandably jittery upon emerging from seclusion into the glare of Washington publicity, the scrawny ex-holdup man stumbled almost incoherently through a 90-minute statement that he had written himself. But as the more skeptical committee members questioned Ray, he turned out to be a patient, polite and cooperative, if unpersuasive witness. By contrast, his attorney, professional Conspiracy Theorist Mark Lane, loaded his frequent objections to the questioning with such sneering sarcasm that he angered even the most sympathetic members of the committee...
...shoot Martin Luther King," Ray insisted in his statement. Instead of revealing new evidence of a plot to kill King, Ray stuck to his claim that he had been framed by an elusive stranger named Raoul, whom he had met in a Montreal bar after escaping from a prison in Jefferson City, Mo., on April 23, 1967. It was Raoul, Ray insisted, who asked him to buy a telescopic-sighted rifle in Birmingham and a pair of binoculars in Memphis-and it was Raoul who must have left them near the scene of the shooting, well marked with...
Unfortunately, these efforts can be compared to a statement by a city fire department that it will improve the fireproofing of buildings-without saying what it will do to put out the four-alarm blaze that is raging right now. And if the dollar's fall is not stopped, the U.S. and world economies will be in mounting danger. The cheapening of the greenback may add ¼% to 1½% to this year's U.S. inflation rate. It both raises the costs of imports, which are now about equal to 10% of the gross national product, and moves...
Professor Hans Küng, Catholic priest and theologian at the University of Tübingen, West Germany, has clashed with the Vatican over such teachings as papal infallibility and birth control. In the following statement, made available to TIME, ten theologians, including Küng* offer some answers to the question: What kind of Pope does today's church need...