Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...article entitled "Troubled Water," [Aug. 31] is incorrect about Cincinnati. The statement attributing an outbreak of infectious hepatitis to our water supply is completely untrue. Your reporter did not read such a statement in the Public Health Service report or anywhere else. What actually happened was that some amateur editor in the Public Health Service misinterpreted a very old report of an incident unconnected with the city's water system. He then included a misleading and ambiguous statement in the HEW report, but that hardly excuses the error's being further compounded...
Also, it is incorrect to make a rigid dichotomy between mass and clandestine violence, approving of the former and looking with horror upon terrorism. Such a dichotomy corresponds neither to the real development of any previous successful revolutionary movement nor to the strategic needs of this one. We believe that some forms of terrorism may be progressive at the present time (though decreasingly so). In saying this, we are by no means lending approval to all of the forms of terrorism which have taken place. Random assassination of rank-and-file police in white communities does not help build...
...addition, unpredictable numbers of returning students and incorrect figures provided by some Houses contributed to the unequal overcrowding...
True to his combative nature, Amalric insisted on his right to examine the credentials of each of the KGB officers. He also studied the arrest warrant, and when he detected an incorrect date for his birthday, he said jokingly: "You see, you have the wrong man." Amalric learned that half of the agents were from the Siberian border city of Sverdlovsk, where a copy of his book, which was circulating in typed form via the Samizdat underground press, had been confiscated by the authorities...
...strike, after which the Corporation announced plans for low-and moderate-income housing in both areas. During the Organization for Black Unity's campaign for more black construction workers at Harvard, Hartman pointed out that Archibald Cox's arguments for 11 per cent minority workers were based on incorrect statistics. He has criticized the quality of teaching at the G.S.D. and protested the decision to spend eight million dollars on Gund Hall...