Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chilean government deported Townley last month in response to pressure by the U.S. government which culminated in a threat to withdraw the American ambassador to Chile, George Landau...
...think Leigh probably thinks the economic policy is too extreme and that Pinochet's personal power is a direct threat to him," Moffitt says, adding that if one looks at the situation historically it is interesting that Pinochet has the most power in the junta because the reins of government "fell on his lap"--he was not, for the most part, involved in anti-Allende activity...
That posed a threat to the estimated 13 million regular users of marijuana in the U.S. Illinois Senator Charles Percy, himself no lover of marijuana, began last year to press the Government to investigate just how much contaminated marijuana was circulating in the U.S. Sampling 63 batches confiscated near the U.S.-Mexican border, the National Institute of Drug Abuse detected traces of paraquat in 13. Those findings led Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano to issue a public warning to marijuana smokers a month ago. Said he: "If an individual smokes three to five heavily contaminated marijuana cigarettes each...
Unfortunately, most of the present pressure on legislators comes from utility front organizations, such as the Edison Electric Institute, that recognize the threat solar energy poses to their profits. Solar flares, although spectacular, won't bring us closer to solar energy either. But better presentations--along the lines of Sun Day--can inform people of the practicality and inevitability of a massive American turn towards...
...century setting is as much an imposition and as little a genuine idea as the nickelodeon. Part of the problem is Jennifer Marre's interpretation of Isabella. If only it had been a little less inexplicable, more seemingly affected by the thought of sexual violation or even by the threat of her brother's execution. Isabella is not necessarily selfishly chaste; especially in the setting of this production, Marre might have been directed to make evident that it is a different sort of martyrdom to consent to rape than to whipping. Marre does not need to treat her brother...