Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.L.O., insisting that the P.L.O. is simply a terrorist gang, with whom they will never negotiate. When Israeli U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum lectured black leaders for meeting with the P.L.O. representative to the U.N. and implied that blacks ought to leave Middle East policy to those who understand it, blacks were furious at being patronized. Replied the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: "Who are you to tell us who we can't talk to? To heaven with...
...complicated for laymen. At the Conference of State Chief Justices last week, Chief Justice Burger strongly urged judges to consider this proposal, pointing out that it can take "not hours, but days" for the judge to explain the legal issues to jurors, who then cannot always be expected to understand or remember what the judge said. Burger noted that Britain, which has less delay in its courts than the U.S., has successfully abolished juries in most civil cases...
...told the dean that I did not understand how it could work having both a committee and a chairman. I didn't see how I could work under these conditions," Southern added...
...call me that. You fight me, pig," Little Joe retorted, obviously taking the whole incident far more seriously than his enemies. "You meet me here at midnight and I'll beat the shit out of you, you understand? Little Joe ordered, and the men across from him agreed with amused nods...
Southern said yesterday she resigned her position partly because she did not understand how she could work as department chairman with a proposed executive committee that would govern the department...