Word: warn
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Secretary of State William Rogers testified for 3½ hours on the Indochina situation before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Chairman J. William Fulbright then took the Senate floor to warn that Vietnamization could lead to "a major military disaster in Indochina." He also argued that North Viet Nam has proved itself to be "the paramount power in Indochina." Said Fulbright: "We ought to welcome North Viet Nam's preeminence, because while North Viet Nam has shown itself strong enough to dominate Indochina if left alone by outside powers, it has also shown itself willing and able to resist...
...hydric hammock" that abounds with rare alligators, panthers and wild turkeys. The hammock harbors this life because the river bed is periodically exposed to air, thus providing alternating wet and dry seasons that are essential to the survival of the wild, beautiful river-swamp system. With permanent flooding, ecologists warn, the system's rare creatures will soon vanish...
CRIME. An outspoken critic of some Warren court decisions upholding defendants' rights, Burger unsuccessfully urged his colleagues to review a case that could have restricted the 1966 Miranda decision requiring policemen to warn detained suspects of their rights to silence and counsel. And last week Burger sharply dissented from a key decision extending the rights of young people in juvenile courts...
...though he may well be both. He has a gruff manner and a Dutch-comic soup-strainer mustache. There is a manic-gypsy look at the corners of his eyes, like that of an elf on a high. His face has been described as the sort that nervous mothers warn children against before they skip off to play in the Black Forest. At charades, he couldn't miss as one of those ambivalent wood cutters that lurk in the background of Grimm fairy tales...
Normally, rumors of drug pushing are left to individual senior tutors who, if they do anything, warn the student of the risks he is running with Harvard and with civil authorities...