Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow abandoned its earlier position that biological and chemical weapons had to be covered in one treaty. Washington had insisted that chemical weapons be negotiated separately on the grounds that more stringent inspection would be required. There was also the complication that the U.S. was using chemical weapons, notably tear gases and herbicides, in Viet...
...Administration resubmitted the protocol to the Senate in late 1969, but stated that it did not interpret it to include irritant gases and herbicides. Since this directly contradicted a 1969 United Nations resolution, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this year asked the Administration to restudy the herbicide and tear gas question. There the matter rests...
...that the country's future will depend not so much on individuals as on stable institutions designed to prevent a power struggle for dictatorship or, equally undesirable, a return to a deadening centralized bureaucracy. Tito is also seeking to ease Yugoslavia's severe regional tensions, which could tear the country apart after his death-and give the Soviet Union an excuse to intervene...
...famed opera singer of the '30s and '40s was honored by the French government with the badge of Commander of the National Order of Merit for her "services to France," including her patriotic work during World War II. One enduring memory: petite Pons singing La Marseillaise to tear-drenched thousands in Rockefeller Center the day Paris was liberated in August...
...that could happen to Mark di Suvero's optimistic and rigorous sculpture might well be engulfment by museums. It is not meant to occupy a sacred exhibition space, fenced by a rail-real or psychic. It belongs in the parks and streets, in a world of wear and tear and, above all, use -the way a Mack truck belongs on the highway...