Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the word intervention is abhor rent to Panamanians, who will be asked to approve the canal pacts in a referendum on Oct. 23, it does not appear at all in the text. Instead, the U.S. right to defend the canal against attack is cloaked in the seemingly ambiguous phrase, "The United States of America and the Republic of Panama agree to maintain the regime of neutrality established in this treaty...
...unusual touch in Auerbach's rather lengthy autobiography is that it does not seem to be completely ghost-written, as is the manner of most sports books. Instead. each chapter contains an historical text by Joe Fitzgerald, a longtime Boston sport-writer including comments about Red from players, relatives, friends and enemies (including the references he terrorized for years), and a few pages of italicized comments from Red himself, which read like transcribed tapes. The result is, surprisingly enough, a lot more readable and interesting than most sports books, which are generally aimed at an eighth-grade audience...
Some of Bernstein's charges were denied as quickly as the text of the article was made available by Rolling Stone. "No CBS News person has ever served as an agent of the CIA or any other intelligence agency while in the employ of CBS," insisted the network. Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan said he had never condoned or known of any CIA use of TIME correspondents and said he would be "amazed" if any such arrangements had ever been approved by the late Henry Luce, Time Inc. cofounder. "Harry Luce had a very scrupulous regard...
...whether the Danube was blue and get a taste of native gulyás. He recalled his own days as a boy down on the farm where he milked 20 cows every morning and coped with lost sheep and a smelly goat. Then he switched to his favorite sermon text, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (in Hungarian: "Ugy szerette, Isten a világot, hogy egy szülött Fiát adta oda"). When Graham concluded by asking the Hungarians to signal their rededication to Jesus Christ...
Coming out shortly before Moshe Dayan was to visit Washington with what officials called the "draft text of a new peace treaty," the leaked Sharon plan in the beginning had caused some embarrassment in the foreign ministry. But Sharon later indicated that he had cleared his plan with Begin and it was just a question of time before it would be carried out. Whether or not the program is officially adopted by the government, a recent poll showed 82% of Israeli voters favoring some kind of settlement in the occupied territories...