Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their first comprehensive statement on the AIDS crisis, the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops last week announced a considerable concession to the disease's grim reality. Despite the church's continued opposition to the use of condoms by married and unmarried persons alike, the bishops will now reluctantly accept the publicizing of information on the devices in public- education campaigns and school classes. Some people simply "will not refrain from the type of sexual or drug-abuse behavior which can transmit AIDS," the bishops acknowledged. But, they stated, AIDS education must emphasize that to stem the disease, "abstinence outside of marriage...
...That statement from the FBI affidavit was based on evidence found by the probers who picked over the muddy hillside. The grisly discoveries: one of Burke's thumbs, identified by its print, proving he had boarded the flight, and a Smith and Wesson .44 magnum revolver with six empty casings. The FBI found a USAir employee who said Burke had borrowed the gun from him last month. Most incriminating was a note, written in Burke's hand, on the outside of an air-sickness bag. It read...
Strip away the diplomatic jargon and that statement is pure dynamite. Its author? U.S. Ambassador Edward J. Perkins, writing in the influential South African bimonthly Leadership, whose latest issue appeared last week. The U.S. State Department insisted that it was entirely consistent with previously stated U.S. policy condemning the South African practice of racial apartheid. As departmental officials noted, Secretary of State George Shultz in a September speech called for a "universal franchise for all adult South Africans," which by implication assumes eventual black rule. But Perkins' article was nonetheless viewed by some observers as a breakthrough, if only...
...That problem is too much `loose' money and too little concern in Washington about ethics in government," Seymour said in a statement referring to "vast sums of money" spent by corporations and foreign governments "to buy influence and favors...
...statement, Seymour attacked loopholes in the Ethics in Government Act that "serve only to breed cynicism by making `lawful' what otherwise would plainly be improper," Seymour said...