Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...asked the student dissenters to go to college, so what right do they have to dissent? Every time I see protesters, I say, "Look at those creeps." But then my 12-year-old son says, "They're not creeps. They have a perfect right to do what they want...
...Barbara Baisley, 34, the wife of a Glencoe, Ill., lawyer, worries about the America in which her four children are growing up: I want my children to live and grow up in an America as I knew it, where we were proud to be citizens of this country. I'm damned sick and tired of listening to all this nonsense about how awful America is. If you feel that way, why stay here? We were brought up to think that anything that is worthwhile in life is worth working for and sacrificing for. It's never going...
Debate Center. The arguments over priorities in the spending of the Government's limited funds may become sharper as the second session of the Congress opens in an election year. Democrats will want to portray the Administration as shirking domestic needs, and Republicans will try to blame Democrats in Congress for free spending and inflation. In his State of the Union address, the President is expected to emphasize his determination to alleviate such domestic ills as deterioration of the environment and inadequate supervision of profit-making concerns that abuse consumers. But how much more money can be diverted from...
There are reports that the Government may be prepared to offer the Indians some land at Fort Miley, on the mainland near the Presidio. The Indians are amenable. "But," says one, "we want Alcatraz. We'd accept all of America back if it were possible." In the meantime, they have raised their own flag over Alcatraz: a broken peace pipe and a crimson tepee emblazoned on a field of azure...
...Israel were quarreling, so were the Arab states during their summit at Morocco's Rabat Hilton. The divisive agenda item was an Egyptian proposal that the other twelve members of the conference assist Egypt and Jordan by playing a greater part in the war against Israel. "I want to know whether you want to participate in the battle or not," Nasser demanded at the final working session. "I ask you please to tell me whether you want to fight." Earlier Egypt's Defense Minister, General Mohammed Fawzi, had unveiled a "mobilization plan" proposing that...