Word: states
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home rule petition, if passed by the city council and the state legislature, would circumvent the court ruling by giving Cambridge the jurisdiction to ban the sale of individual apartments from a block of housing...
...September, 1982, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig claimed yellow rain was a biological agent deliberately deployed by the Soviets against the Laotian rebels...
...Meselson said he became suspicious of the government's claims two months later when he read a State Department report stating that yellow rain contained traces of pollen...
...Jordan's unsuccessful surprise attack during the Six Day War--and as a result does not even pretend to live under the same rules as the Israeli democracy. Many right-wing Israelis would indeed like to rectify this situation by annexing the territories and including the Palestinians in the state, a solution I assume is unpalatable to most of us at Harvard. Within Israel, democracy itself, as a form of government with which America idenitifies, is alive and well...
David Lambertson, a State Department official specializing in East Asian and Pacific affairs, said it was U.S. policy to bring about a "comprehensive settlement" of the war by verifing Vietnamese troop withdrawal, eliminating the political power of the Khmer Rouge and letting the Cambodian people determine their future...