Word: anas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...standing on the hot tarmac of the El Toro Marine Air Station at Santa Ana, Calif., along with 49 other Vietnamese-all waiting to board the C-141 Starlifter that would take them to Guam, the first leg of their journey back home. They were among the 2,500 refugees who have petitioned to be flown back to Viet Nam by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (1,200 have already left). Most of them, especially the single men, are returning because they want to be reunited with their families. But increasingly, those who seek repatriation reflect an unfortunate fact...
...Medal of Honor holder who spent six years in a North Vietnamese P.O.W. camp, seemed to threaten Senator George McGovern at the outset, but faded as the campaign wore on. In California, 32-year-old Republican David Rehmann, six years a P.O.W., lost his bid for Congress to Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson. In Georgia, Republican Quincy Collins, 43, an ex-Air Force colonel and a seven-year P.O.W., battled Democrat Larry McDonald for a seat in Congress and lost. Maine Democrat Markham L. Gartley, 30, a onetime Navy lieutenant who spent four years in a P.O.W. camp...
While Nixon is in the hospital, his lawyers will be questioned about his health. A California judge must decide whether to grant their motion to quash a subpoena for Nixon to appear in Santa Ana and give a deposition in a civil suit challenging security arrangements at a 1971 rally in Charlotte, N.C. The plaintiffs charge that their civil rights were violated when they were refused entry. Miller & Co. argue that giving the deposition would impose an "unreasonable burden" on their ailing client...
...Santa Ana, Calif., Register, which had tracked Nixon's financial affairs concerning San Clemente, reported on May 13,1973 that Senate investigators were looking into the possibility that surplus campaign funds had been used to buy the estate. That story got considerable play, but the basic allegation has never been supported. Newsweek a year ago reported that John Dean had information to the effect that some "lowlevel White House officials at one point considered assassinating the President of Panama." Neither Dean nor anyone else ever corroborated that grabber...
...reappraisal-and thereby prevent hasty decisions from being made. The centralization of government that led to Watergate has spread to economic institutions and beyond, making procrastination a worldwide way of life. Many languages are studded with phrases that refer to putting things off-from the Spanish mañana to the Arabic bukra fil mishmish (literally "tomorrow in apricots," more loosely "leave it for the soft spring weather when the apricots are blooming...