Word: ued
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...UNITED STATES government, in the instance of Micronesia has perverted the meaning of the word trust, leaving unfulfilled most of the tenets of the U. N. Charter. The quality of life, the excessive exposure to radiation, the threat to future generations of Micronese demands the attention of the international community. The horrors of nuclear fallout should not have to be suffered...
...opinion is shared by many local citizens. Asserts Hank Greenspun, the publisher of the Las Vegas Sun: "If you're a Nevadan, you're guilty until proved innocent." Federal investigators adamantly defend their actions. Nevada, says retired FBI Agent Joseph Yablonsky, u who headed the Claiborne probe, has too long operated like "a foreign protectorate ... We've had to plant the American flag in the desert...
DIED. Martin Niemöller, 92, German theologian, preacher and pacifist who spent seven years in Nazi concentration camps for his outspoken opposition to Adolf Hitler; in Wiesbaden, West Germany. A U-boat commander during World War I, he became a minister in the Lutheran Evangelical Church in 1924. Though an early Nazi supporter, Niemöller led the clerical opposition after Hitler came to power in 1933, crying, "Not you, Herr Hitler, but God is my Führer." Hitler responded by sending him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 and later to Dachau. After...
...service decades ago. But the scale is all wrong: the plane is too big for the boat, and it looks more like an effigy stuck to the painting. In fact, Morley did paint it from a tin airplane, picked from his vast collection of models and toys. A U-boat, suspended beneath the painted sea on painted sticks, is also done from a toy. As a document of catastrophe, the scene is far from believable, but its curious power as an image comes partly from the sheer blatancy of its fiction. The fact that the plane, the liner...
...most superclosets, clothes are organized according to occasion, length, season, color, with separate areas for shoes, hats, handbags and furs (which ideally are kept under refrigeration). The revolving racks favored by most closetologists are adapted from those used by dry-cleaning shops. They can be oblong, E-, U-or L-shaped, any length space permits, and expensive. The Robbins' system cost $3,500 plus labor. A simpler approach was taken by Comedian Phyllis Diller, who took over a 23-ft. by 14-ft. guest bedroom and filled it with movable racks like those used in the garment industry...