Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neighborhood residents joined forces in groups like the Neighborhood Nine Association and the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. Although the two groups began fighting for the same issue, they split up in a dispute as to whether the residents should push for an end to all Harvard construction or just the Observatory Hill complex...
...Supreme Court yesterday refused to consider a petition to determine whether the Wampanoag Indians, who are claiming 11,000 acres of land in the town of Mashpee, Mass., are legally a tribe...
Thomas N. Tureen, attorney for the Indians said yesterday, "the trial was going to be a futile act," because the U.S. Department of Interior will make the final decision regardless of whether its definition of a tribe differs from Skinner's. The department will base its decision on the findings of a panel of experts and tribal history archaeologists, Tureen added...
Whatever the outcome, the Cuban affair not only casts still more doubt on the leadership of the Carter Administration but also raises a longer-term and more disturbing question about whether the Congress - recently so assertive about playing a bigger role in foreign policy - can help solve crises rather than manufacturing and aggravating them...
...first talk, on July 9, by tacit agreement we did not press controversial issues to the hilt. Taiwan was mentioned only briefly. But at the next day's session the mood was different. With very few preliminaries Chou recited a fierce litany and closed with a challenging question?whether, given our vast differences, there was any sense in a presidential visit...