Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cadillac Eldorado for Fort Chaffee, determined to do what he could to help a Vietnamese family. Before the day was out, they returned with Colonel Nguyen Bang and eight members of his family wedged in the car. "We have to do what we think is right," said Stehle, who undertook to get the Bang family settled in Tulsa. Colonel Bang will work in the filling station and hopes to become a mechanic...
...jury that appeared to destroy the prospect for conviction, but these instructions were only a reflection of the tremendous preponderance of evidence that supported the doctor's in nocence. The defense had shown sternly that no human being ever existed as a result of the abortion operation Edelin undertook, October 3, 1973 and had argued compelling that a doctor should not be prosecuted retroactively lot an action he regarded as medically and legally legitimate...
...brought the indictment last April, of intimidating those who perform legal abortions. Still, as a thousand supporters demonstrated Monday, there is much to be hoped after all this: That a higher court will reverse the decision on the grounds that no state statute warned Edelin that the operation he undertook was culpable. Or that the state Board of Registration in Medicine will uphold Edelin's actions by refusing to revoke his license. Or that a higher court will issue a ruling that defines abortion and the age of viability in such a manner that doctors, at least in Massachusetts, will...
...furor over the domestic spying was touched off two weeks ago by the New York Times, which reported that in the 1950s and 1960s the CIA undertook wiretaps, break-ins and other covert means within the U.S. and accumulated illegal intelligence files on 10,000 Americans. These allegations were at least partially confirmed by CIA Director William E. Colby in a secret accounting to President Gerald Ford. Colby is said to have told Ford that the CIA had maintained files on thousands of Americans, although he contended that only a fraction were under active surveillance. He also is said...
...comfortable majority. Though his powers as chairman were due to be curbed by a reform-minded Democratic caucus in any case, it looked as if he could keep his chair if he was willing to fight for it. Then came his fatal foray into Boston, a trip that Mills undertook, he later told newsmen, to dispel rumors that he had been having an affair with Fanne Foxe. The trip had exactly the opposite result, and saddened and dismayed House members declared that Mills...