Word: stops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vatican terms that meant that Küng, 51, must stop teaching Catholic theology at West Germany's University of Tubingen. It is the harshest action against any important scholar since the era before the liberalizing breezes of the Second Vatican Council, and one that was explicitly endorsed by Pope John Paul II. During the Vatican Council Küng was an adviser to the West German hierarchy. His moderate reformist concepts won the admiration of, among others, the Polish bishop who became John Paul II. But since the council, Kung has more and more acted as a kind...
While Vance was collecting promises of support in Europe, the Administration suffered a minor setback at home. In Washington, U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green directed the Administration to stop its crackdown on Iranians with student visas who are illegally in the U.S. She ruled that the Government had subjected the Iranians to a "discriminatory, 30-day roundup that violates the fundamental principles of American fairness." Since Nov. 13, immigration officials had interviewed 50,437 Iranians, found that 6,042 were in the U.S. illegally and expelled 56 of them. Government lawyers won a temporary stay of the ruling...
...said of the Azerbaijanis, the rugged mountain people who flourish in the northwestern tip of Iran, that they are like a camel-hard to rouse and get up onto their feet, but once up, hard to stop. So it is that their opposition to the Ayatullah Khomeini began as a protest, turned into a demonstration, then a revolt, and now a challenge to the theocratic regime that Khomeini has just imposed on the nation...
...yellow birch cordwood aboard, has sunk to her rusty frame in a mushy patch of logging road. Linda has four-wheel drive and a lot of heart, but this is a Sargasso of mud, the kind that bogs the wood lot every year after the leafless forest trees stop drinking water and the October rains come. Linda's friend and owner disembarks to consider the problem...
...long-term contracts for about $26 to $27.50 per bbl., inviting additional leapfrogging increases. By going to Caracas with their petroleum once again priced close to cartel levels, the Saudis will be able to argue that they have returned to the fold and may gain stronger bargaining power to stop or at least slow further rises...