Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the outcome, the Cuban affair not only casts still more doubt on the leadership of the Carter Administration but also raises a longer-term and more disturbing question about whether the Congress - recently so assertive about playing a bigger role in foreign policy - can help solve crises rather than manufacturing and aggravating them...
Jordan was indeed in Beverly Hills that month, along with Carter Advisers Patrick Caddell and Timothy Kraft and Jordan's friend, John Golden. The occasion was a Democratic fund-raising dinner on Oct. 22 at the swank Century Plaza Hotel. The black-tie affair, which was billed as a "Salute to the President," raised $700,000 for the Democratic Party. Guests included Governor Jerry Brown and other West Coast Democrats...
What was most perplexing about the whole affair was the number of questions that remained unanswered. Was there really a buildup of Soviet forces in Cuba? If so, since when, and by how much? What exactly was the Soviet brigade doing in Cuba? Was it merely training Cubans, or did it have a combat role? Did its presence represent a Soviet gesture to support Castro's maintenance of 40,000 Cuban soldiers in Africa? Was it guarding Soviet information-gathering installations that eavesdropped on the U.S.? And if U.S. intelligence did not know the answers...
...guests around it. Over plates of polenta (cornmeal porridge), sausage and pork in a thick gravy, washed down with Lambrusco, the talk moves from local politics to musical gossip: the burglary of Herbert von Karajan's Saint-Tropez villa, or the scheduling problems caused by the love affair of two internationally known singers...
...understandable; they're probably worried about an R rating. But don't they know that too much booze in a hot tub can produce a profound lethargy? It might even cook up a script about a 40-year-old man with anxiety pangs who has an affair with a Dallas Cowgirl...