Word: statements
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classical and a romantic, but then so may Dryden, depending on your point of view. In some respects this statement is unquestionably true; but in others...." On through the night...
...mixed success. Black Panther leaders like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale sound as threatening as the white racists they oppose. Riots break out in Watts, Detroit, and Attica prison. Meanwhile, the nation undergoes a virtual revolution of race consciousness. Negroes are transformed into blacks, Afro hairstyles become a political statement, and the rise of a sassy young heavyweight named Cassius Clay has reverberations far beyond the boxing ring...
Meanwhile, Washington and the Vatican were trying to find a way out of their diplomatic deadlock. A Vatican statement asserted that Laboa was "doing his best to convince General Noriega to abandon the nunciature on his own," though it added that the legate "cannot force Noriega to leave." The White House for its part declared its "appreciation" of Vatican efforts and reassured the papacy that "there are no fixed deadlines...
...installed current President of Panama, who took shelter in the nunciature from Noriega thugs after he had won an election last May that the dictator annulled. One high-ranking Vatican official summarized the thinking: "The right to asylum must be defended, even for Lucifer." Moreover, contended a church statement, Noriega's surrender to the papal legate "helped in a very positive way to put an end to the conflict ((with invading American troops)) and to hasten the time of peace." The implication is that the asylum was in fact serving a moral cause rather than shielding a criminal...
...left the hospital to be at his son's side at his death. And he wrote a statement for his wife's funeral in which he said: "...for us to truly believe, we must know that [God's] will was done and that there was some right in this meanest of acts. In our souls, we must forgive this sinner because he would...