Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boundaries. Three smaller reservations are also planned. But the government's attitude is best expressed by General Oscar Bandeira de Mello, head of FUNAI, the national Indian foundation charged with looking after Indian interests. "We could spend the next five or eight years in this love affair with isolated Indians," says Bandeira de Mello, "and all we would achieve would be to set back the opening of roads like the Transamazonia...
...been beaten by his half-brother in their last meeting. Their most likely challengers were Savoir, the only gelding in the field and a strong stretch threat, and Quick Pride, who had won the Yonkers Futurity. As it turned out, the race was a surprisingly easy affair for the bay colt Speedy Crown. In two straight heats, one of them the second fastest in Hambletonian history (time: 1:57.2), Speedy Crown bested his only serious challenger, the fast-closing Savoir. It was the second victory in three years for Driver Howard Beissinger and the colt's owners. Frank...
...echelons of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the U.S. Government soon began to snipe at each other. At an annual golfing affair thrown in his honor by the retail clerks' union, Meany groused to some friends at the bar: "You know, until three weeks ago we had George Shultz and James Hodgson coming, and Mr. Shultz even thought the President might stop by. Well, we lost the President and Mr. Shultz, and Mr. Hodgson is probably down in the cellar somewhere." Meany played the course with three lower-ranking officials. His temper grew still shorter when Hodgson treated Teamster Boss Frank...
...Prosecutor Hanrahan's office had abruptly reversed itself and decided to drop the Panther indictments because of "faulty" evidence. In the midst of all this confusion and in response to press and public pressure, a special county grand jury was convened last year to look into the whole affair...
...tried to prevent Gorlov from telling Solzhenitsyn about the raid. They threatened to destroy his career as an engineer, and even to imprison him. Although viciously mauled, Gorlov refused to give in. So did Solzhenitsyn. In his letter to Andropov he demanded an investigation of the whole sinister affair, adding in a note to Premier Aleksei Kosygin that he held the KGB chief "personally responsible...