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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel very idealistic and optimistic about our country," the former two-term congressman and head of the first U.S. liaison office in China said. "We are the only credible defense to the Soviet Union. We should act like the United States of America," he added during a brief speech in which he stressed U.S. responsibility to defend international freedom...
...said withdrawal would be ineffective and could only offer a short-term symbolic effect. By withdrawal, the University would take the symbolism. "Wrap it up into one ball and shoot it at once," Nye added...
...Kerr McGee began to move out of Shiprock, abandoning uranium mine shafts and the uranium mill in favor of awaiting ore bodies found elsewhere on the reservation. In the early 1970s, the long-term effects of low-level radiation began to take their toll among the Navajo miner workforce. By 1974, 18 Navajo uranium miners had died from radiation-induced lung cancer, with many more near the hospitalization stage. Kerr McGee refused to take any responsibility or to pay medical expenses. As Kerr McGee spokesman Bill Phillips told one reporter in Washington, "I couldn't tell you what happened...
...They had a nice race," coach Harry Parker understated after the race, adding, "I don't know that I'd use the term pride, but they have a strong bond for each other...
Moroz has been in Soviet prisons almost continually since 1965. After completing a four year term for alleged anti-Soviet activities, he was arrested again in June 1970 after nine months of freedom for writing a series of essays protesting Soviet domination of the Ukraine. His current sentence, five years imprisonment and five years exile, would have extended through...