Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laos (pop. 3,000,000), some 700,000 people have been displaced since 1962. Many fled from their homes last year when North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces recaptured the Plain of Jars after ten days of fighting. Others have been driven from their villages by U.S. bombs. The terror of the Laotian bombings has been reflected in a series of refugees' drawings collected by Fred Branfman, formerly of the International Voluntary Services (see page...
...educated Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Premier Golda Meir, who sounds in English like the no-nonsense Milwaukee schoolteacher she used to be. 'The Secretary knows our position well," said an Israeli official last week. "It has been explained to him in Cambridge English, broken English and just plain English...
...lives-over neither of which the Committee has jurisdiction. Two weeks ago the Committee released a decision in the case of Allen S. Weinrub, a graduate student accused of conspiring at a meeting to commit a disruption which never took place. Although it acquitted Weinrub, the CRR made plain in its decision that it feels free to judge defendants' beliefs, thoughts, and intent, even though they may commit no actions which could legitimately be punished...
...Kent State killings made plain last year, the state governments have perhaps more extraordinary power over life and limb. Thirty-five state constitutions explicitly authorize the governor, at his own discretion, to call out the National Guard to suppress insurrection. They define this discretion broadly enough to cover the use of the Guard in any public disorder attended by a crisis in local law enforcement...
...Pacifica, Calif., they called him "Father Bob"-or just plain Bob. He had come to the seaside community just south of San Francisco in 1966 as pastor of the airy, modern church that is the nucleus of St. Peter's Roman Catholic parish. He was a Vatican II priest, no question: folk Masses, a strong parish council, an adult education program on church history and theology. But he was a bit more as well. Last week the rest of the U.S. found out what some of his parishioners have known for months: that the pretty woman and five-year...