Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question that has been brought to my mind by the suffering in Cambodia [Nov. 12]: How do we know that life on this earth is not another world's hell...
There was a lot of banging and crashing outside the vault, but we had no way of knowing what it was. Our room was now mostly quiet. It was getting warmer and warmer; the first real thoughts began to enter your mind that you could die here, that somebody was trying to cook us to death-quite literally. The link to reality was Dixie...
Last summer 15 Western journalists, including virtually all those from the U.S., were expelled by Iran's new revolutionary government. After the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized, the regime welcomed back many of the same correspondents-with a particular goal in mind. Last Thursday the Iranian Ministry of National Guidance invited 200 foreign journalists over for lunch. Acting Foreign Minister Abol Hassan Banisadr made a sugary appeal for more sympathetic coverage of his government's attempts to retrieve the Shah, declaring, "Diplomats cannot solve this problem...
...parents fled China in 1949 because her grandfather was a high official in the Kuomintang. "He taught six years at Hartford and then changed his mind and decided Communism was good," she says, "sort of a Confucian thing, like the mandate of Heaven changed. So he returned to China to work for the foreign ministry on U.S.-China and China Taiwan relations...
Monday, November 12, was Veterans Day, a holiday that, apart from giving me a welcome break from school, has never really signified a whole lot. But this year it felt very different for me. Vietnam was on my mind...