Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLEVELAND, Ohio--A lengthy legal battle by the victims of the 1970 Kent State University shootings ended yesterday with a $675,000 settlement and a statement of regret by Gov. James A. Rhodes and 27 present and former National Guard members...
...statement said, "The tragedy of May 4, 1970 should not have occurred," but did not pinpoint responsibility for the shootings...
...joint Chinese-American communique opposing "hegemony," which is a Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. Otherwise, Moscow took a wait-and-see attitude toward the U.S. Noting that Carter had assured the U.S.S.R. that the China deal would not harm Soviet interests, Pravda said, "This is a very important statement, and time will show if these words accord with practical deeds and political actions." Thus the Kremlin seemed to have no intention of letting U.S.-China policy get in the way of a SALT agreement or a summit conference between Carter and Brezhnev...
...others learned that the acronym stands for East Central Reliability Council, a group of utility companies. They were to learn more from Representative Gerry Studds of Massachusetts, who wrote his constituents: "Air Force to do EIS on PAVE PAWS." Translation: there was to be an environmental impact statement about a type of radar: Precision Acquisition of Vehicle Entry-Phased Array Warning System...
...policy, issued after a 1974 synod, has dropped old racist theology in favor of nominal support for racial equality, but holds that South Africa's system of apartheid is morally acceptable. "The New Testament does not regard the diversity of peoples as such as something sinful," the policy statement says, and the teaching in Galatians 3: 28 that "there is neither Jew nor Greek" in Christ relates to overall spiritual unity, not "social integration...