Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vance, but the meeting with the P.L.O. had enraged Israel and threatened to derail U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. American black leaders, on the other hand, were angry at Carter for so readily accepting Young's departure, and they hinted that the President might pay for his action with lost black votes. Several of them also blamed the dismissal on Jewish pressure and warned that it would exacerbate tension between U.S. blacks and Jews...
...officers have been killed in the line of duty since 1971. The Justice Department in the past five years has investigated 210 complaints of police brutality in Philadelphia. Last year a delegation of the city's black leaders pleaded with then Attorney General Griffin Bell to take stronger action. On his orders, the department's Civil Rights Division opened an investigation that continued for eight months, culminating in last week's suit...
Dolan can spend as much as he raises, despite the federal restriction that normally limits one political action committee to $10,000 per candidate. The reason is that N.C.P.A.C. is exploiting the "independent expenditure" loophole permitted under a 1976 Supreme Court ruling. This allows free spending provided that there is no connection between the advertiser and the political beneficiary of the advertising. In Idaho, Church does not even have an announced opponent yet. His probable rival is Republican Congressman Steven Symms, who says that he has "no reason to be interested in a dirty campaign" against Church...
...bench only five days before he was scheduled to enter prison. Federal Judge Herbert Fogel of Philadelphia, implicated in a scandal involving backdated documents to win a Government bid in 1970, took the Fifth Amendment when questioned by a grand jury. He resigned last year before any disciplinary action was taken against him. Federal Judge Willis Ritter, infamous for an abusive temper that led him to bully lawyers and to hale a postmaster and 29 aides into court because their mail-sorting machinery in the courthouse was too noisy, was allowed to stay on the bench until he died last...
Most of the movie's close-up action, featuring Actors David Janssen, Tony Musante and Madge Sinclair, was shot on a set constructed in the community center gym of Darrington, Wash. But the helicopter scenes were shot 4,200 ft. higher up, on and around the sheer rock face of White Horse Mountain in the northern Cascades. Director Eugene Jones spent six months finding just the right-size ledge, which measured an appropriately uncomfortable...