Word: weres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When 13 West Bank mayors submitted their resignations in protest, Weizman began to have second thoughts. After reading a transcript of Shaka'a's talk with Matt, he concluded that the Nablus mayor had been unfairly misquoted as defending the massacre. But at a Cabinet meeting next day...
At Peking's famed "democracy wall" last week, a group of young people were selling transcripts of the trial of China's leading dissident, Wei Jingsheng, 29. He had been sentenced to 15 years in prison last month on charges of counterrevolutionary activity, and passing military data to...
Three days before the incident at democracy wall, Liu had told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein in Peking that he was morally prepared for arrest. Speaking for himself and the other editors of his magazine, Liu said, "We recognize that to achieve democracy, we will have to make some sacrifices-of...
Last week's arrests, like Wei's trial, were violations in spirit of the much touted restoration of the rule of law in China, which includes a guarantee of open trials where the accused's rights are to be fully respected. After the Forum editor was imprisoned...
The House and Senate have already passed by large margins two of the three major Carter recommendations, and will soon begin working out minor differences before sending the legislation to the White House. One act would create an Energy Mobilization Board, which would be able to bulldoze through bureaucratic red...