Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American correspondent. Would the State Department maintain a sort of running commentary on such incidents as they occurred? Vance tried to blunt the issue by declaring that U.S. criticism of foreign governments should be neither "polemical" nor "strident," but would occur "from time to time when we see a threat to human rights...
Jewish Conspiracy. Moscow's actions were certainly disquieting for the new Administration. The State Department's warning to the Soviet Union cautioned against carrying out an official threat to prosecute Andrei Sakharov, the dissident leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Although Cyrus Vance and Jimmy Carter both waffled somewhat on the exact wording of their commitment to take a moral stand in foreign policy, both had ultimately backed State's critique of the Soviets' behavior. In his fireside chat last week, Carter repeated his concern for human rights, stressing, though, that this would...
...have found out what kind of people rule this country," declared Opposition Leader Morarji Desai, 80, who had been released from prison a fortnight earlier. "It is as important to keep our freedom secure from this type of government as to keep it in the face of a foreign threat." Desai drew a roar of approval when he accused the government of "vasectomizing" democracy-a reference to the strenuous program of birth control by sterilization that has caused riots and resentment throughout much of North India...
There were times in her crushing solitude when she despaired of maintaining sanity. She endured for weeks under the threat of execution by her captors. At one point she was convinced that her country had abandoned her. But last week the long nightmare ended for French Archaeologist Françoise Claustre, 39. After 33 months as a political prisoner of rebel tribesmen in the remote Tibesti desert of northern Chad, Claustre was handed over, exhausted but unharmed, to French officials in Tripoli. Her rescuer: none other than Libya's mercurial leader, Muammar Gaddafi...
...Bryn Mawr's Carey Thomas, herself an ardent feminist, it is "the symbol of a stupendous social revolution and we are frightened before it." The women who attend the Seven Sisters, like the men who have traditionally attended the Ivy Leagues, come from predominantly upperclass, Eastern establishment backgrounds. Any threat to the status quo threatened their whole social standing...