Word: documented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways, the European press was acidly critical. Wrote Stockholm's independent daily Dagens Nyheter: "As a document of the emotional climate of the late 1970s, [Carter's] speech should be historic. It is also historic in its lack of concrete means of effecting a cure." The cover of Der Spiegel, the West German newsmagazine, had a cartoon of a countrified Carter standing atop an empty oil barrel in front of a sign reading U.S.A.−LAND OF UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. The President was shown painting out the un from unlimited. Stem, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly...
Principal author of the document was Martin Peretz, editor of the New Republic...
...case of a serious Skylab crash in the U.S., Washington expects local fire, police and medical authorities to provide any needed emergency service. A team from NASA would go to the area to give technical advice and help document claims, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency would coordinate aid on a regional basis. Actually, few localities, if any, have made advance plans for such an unpredictable accident...
...visited by two "strangers." Khomeini has never claimed that his son was murdered, but throughout Iran it was widely assumed that SAVAK was responsible. On the occasion of his son's death, the Ayatullah wrote a letter to the Iranian people that is now regarded as the crucial document of the revolution. After denouncing the "absurdities of this incompetent agent [the Shah] and his family of looters," Khomeini declared, "it is the responsibility of the Iranian army and its heads to liberate their country from destruction." Khomeini thus established himself as leader of the revolution by calling upon...
...document left nothing to chance...