Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, Yuly M. Vorontsov, the chargé d'affaires of the Russian embassy, was a frequent visitor in the office of State's Sisco. Their exchange amounted, in essence, to the U.S.'s urging the Russians to get the Syrians to withdraw their tanks, while the U.S.S.R. warned the U.S. to stay out and to keep Israel out. Kissinger even attended an official Egyptian social affair on Tuesday night, where Vorontsov loudly demanded to know why the U.S. had not responded to the Soviet note. While enthralled guests stared, Kissinger was overheard to say that there was no need...
...with scarcely concealed delight when the Basel subsidiary of the United California Bank suspended operations, a victim of the costliest banking scandal in Swiss history. The losses of the U.S. affiliate so far have been estimated at $40 million. But as state-appointed auditors worked to unravel the tangled affair last week, there was every possibility that the deficit could grow even larger...
Officials of the Los Angeles-based United California Bank, with assets in excess of $5 billion, have promised to make good the subsidiary's losses up to $40 million when the audit is completed, but that will take months. "It's the most complicated affair I have come across in my long career," says Frank L. King, chairman of the Los Angeles bank, itself a subsidiary of Western Bancorporation, a holding company that controls 23 banks...
Leonard said in a prepared statement released last night that some have suggested that the symposium is planned as a "black only" affair...
...York after last May's strike (including some footage of the celebrated hard-hat incidents), and it also covers the march on Washington. That the photography and sound are of markedly poor quality, that the editing resorts to tricks (unspeakable in documentaries) like pixillation, and that the whole affair is packaged like a landmark of cinema verite, all pale before the movie's ugliest flaw: its politics are asinine. The interviewers are boorish, sexist, and reactionary, and the resulting sub-screen attitudes toward militancy, electoral politics, and violent revolution which emerge are at their very best a parody of post...