Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neighborhood paraphernalia dealers blossomed as fast as the drug culture, flowering on corners across the nation with a wide assortment of cigarette rolling papers, small pipes, cocaine spoons, psychedelic lights and other legal appurtenances for high living. But for many officials,the head shops serve as a too-blatant reminder of the losing battle against drugs...
...country's mood as Tholet's father-in-law, who happens to be Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, led his white countrymen one step closer to black majority rule. Last week, at Smith's urging, white Rhodesians went to the polls to approve by a wide margin a new constitution under which rule is to pass from the country's 240,000 whites to its 6.4 million blacks. The transition will take place after the whites, along with 2.8 million black voters, approve a new government in another election scheduled for April...
...Pope had come to Mexico to address the third continent-wide meeting of Latin American bishops and urge a care fully balanced commitment to both spiritual and social goals. The bishops' meeting at Puebla is discussing church strategy in Latin America, where oppressive regimes and desperate poverty abound. In consequence, many priests have turned to "liberation theology" and revolutionary Marxist thinking. In their view, work for social and economic revolution is central to the church's task...
...three-hour Thursday evening meeting, the assembly passed resolution after resolution: condemning next year's college cost increase, supporting reform of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, and calling for a campus-wide demonstration to protest the University's refusal to rename the Englehard Library at the Kennedy School...
...Sunday night, the assembly stage-managed a huge campus-wide event, a party at the Boston-Boston discotheque that attracted 3000 people...