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...send an official message to a foreign ambassador complaining about opposition from U.S. citizens in an essentially domestic dispute. Second, Watt's letter seemed to contain an implicit, cynical threat: if American dependence on Arab oil becomes too great, the U.S. might find it politically expedient to temper its support of Israel...
...report may have ignored the temper of the times. Ten years ago the public was moving toward the idea of lighter punishment for marijuana users. A 1972 study by the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse concluded that criminal sanctions were failing and counterproductive. Over the next six years, eleven states decriminalized pot possession for individual use,* while many others decreased penalties or loosened up their enforcement. President Carter backed a softening of federal laws. But by the late '70s the mood began to swing back. With an estimated 60% of high school seniors having tried...
Their proposal was quickly | disputed by Anthropologist Richard Leakey. He said that White and Johanson's large afarensis males and small females were more likely two entirely different species that lived side by side some 3 million years ago. The temper of the debate was not helped by Johanson's 1981 book Lucy, which discussed the activities of the Leakey family in an intimate, gossipy way. Though the discovery of what may be an older version of Lucy seems to bolster the case for afarensis, partisans on both sides of the debate agree that more fossils will have...
Swift says she expected some sort of rescue attempt to be made even earlier. "Our [the U.S.'s] ability to hold our temper was amazing," but remains sharply critical of the actual rescue plan Observing that the students had the embassy under "fairly good control," she adds, "Then there's the whole city of Tehran. You would have had crowds converging on the embassy compound, it would have been very bloody." Of her own fate, she says, "I don't think there's much of a chance] would have gotten out alive...
...dollar (official rate) and serious internal discontent, had so far whipped up national sentiment as to have pasted himself into a corner. There were others at hand, quite prepared to oust him if his venture failed. Among the admirals were men of much more fascist temper than he. The air force generals, long in second place to the admirals, were gaining in clout. Galtieri had to succeed. How could he withdraw-and survive...