Word: call
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small-town America that were challenged. In the '60s and into the '70s, it is the nation itself. Americans, almost unique in the world, are incapable of imagining a different form of government for the nation. As William Pfaff observes, "The Constitution is all." Thus to assault America, to call for revolutionary change, as some black and white radicals do, is a profoundly spiritual offense, an invitation to Armageddon. Most Middle Americans, and most radicals, share one blind spot: they tend to forget that both the form and content of the U.S. Government have undergone enormous changes over the years...
...neither will my friends. The city is deserted after dark. Everybody is afraid to walk on the streets. I think the Supreme Court is ruining the country with its decisions. Criminals are being released on technicalities. My husband is an oil-burner mechanic, and he used to be on call 24 hours a day. No more. He doesn't work after dark...
...Jerusalem, Premier Golda Meir spoke angrily last week of the "erosion" of U.S. policy and accused Washington of "appeasement"; one Israeli paper went so far as to call it "Mu-nichism." Secretary of State William Rogers replied that the U.S. was merely being "evenhanded." Added Rogers: "We have to conduct our foreign policy in a way that we think is best for our national interests." The statement seemed unexceptional, but it convinced some Israelis that substantial U.S. investments in Arab oil and commerce were behind the shift toward neutrality...
...passengers for Trans World Airlines' flight 841 lined up to board their jet in Athens last week, an alert supervisor named Frixos Servetopoulos noticed that two men and a woman were carrying identical brown leather satchels. Feigning routine interest, Servetopoulos inspected one bag, then scurried to call the police. In short order, the three passengers were arrested. Inside their luggage was found an arsenal of pistols, hand grenades and bombs. The three were also carrying mimeographed statements announcing that the airliner was being skyjacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P...
Sensitivity Sessions. At the University of Michigan in November, the Black Law Students' Alliance demanded that the law school "show cause" why it should not be found guilty of racism. At a mock hearing, the students called black residents of Ann Arbor who testified to the need for more black attorneys in their community. One reason why the 38 blacks at the school were furious was Michigan's decision to drop a course on race law and another on labor relations and race. They were further annoyed when Dean Francis Allen, whom they call "Bwana," refused to attend...