Word: aires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only surprise in Carter's speech was the statement that the Joint Chiefs of Staff would testify for the treaty. Actually, only the Chairman, Air Force General David Jones, and two other members, Air Force General Lew Allen Jr. and Admiral Thomas Hayward, support the treaty, and they have some reservations. The other two members, Army General Bernard Rogers and Marine General Louis Wilson, are even less enthusiastic and so far have held back from endorsing the pact...
Among the more candid Russians who came along, the worries drifted to the surface in their private talk. Brezhnev had flown over Eastern Europe, and the tremors from Pope John Paul II's visit were still in the air. The Soviet economy was in stress, nationalities more assertive. The old men seemed to have only one answer: more missiles, more tanks...
Although he does not speak Russian, Watson has some firsthand knowledge of Soviet life. During World War II, he spent six months in Russia as part of the Lend-Lease airlift program, piloting Army Air Force transports that carried goods across the Bering Sea from Alaska. With other business and labor leaders, academics and politicians, Watson was a member of the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations that in 1977 urged cooperation with the Soviets on arms control, science, cultural affairs and trade...
...down government casualties, Somoza's troops last week began to shell rebel positions with heavy artillery before moving in to retake streets of Managua's barrios "yard by yard." But the indiscriminate shelling, along with devastating bomb and rocket attacks by Somoza's air force, has killed far more civilians than Sandinistas...
Among the refugees, there was fury at the Somoza regime. Many had been wounded by the national guard's indiscriminate shelling and air attacks. Said Miriam Morales, 20, who had just given birth in a chicken coop in the courtyard to her second child: "I have named her Diane, and I hope she never hears a rocket in her life...