Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oriented young Indians, who called their mission "the Trail of Broken Treaties," began a seven-day occupation of the building. They were protesting the bureau's inefficiency and its indifference to the pyramiding problems faced by Indians, especially in the cities. Uncertain how to handle the militants and anxious to minimize the pre-election publicity that accompanied their trashing of the building, the Administration bought its way out of the mess by giving the Indians $66,650 in "travel expenses" to clear the area...
...number of the boys who have been hurt for us were not in top condition, and when you get tired you make errors. Also I think because it was our first game a number of our kids were anxious," Harrison said...
...toward a permanent and sweeping agreement to limit strategic nuclear weapons. Seven key NATO powers (excluding France) have invited five Warsaw Pact members to meet with them in January, probably in Lausanne, to start talks on Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR). The Soviets, in part because they are anxious to free their troops for Chinese-border duty, may be willing to pull back some of their 20 divisions now based in East Germany, while the U.S. is already preparing for a possible 10% reduction in its force of 320,000 troops in West Germany...
FINLAND is anxious to advance its role as an active neutral. At present the Finns badly need to sign a trade treaty with the nine-nation Common Market. But Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev has warned Finnish President Urho Kekkonen that the time is not right for Finland to make trade deals with the European Economic Community. Kekkonen, who places top foreign policy priority on maintaining friendly relations with the Kremlin, might be less reluctant to press ahead with an EEC trade treaty if Finland at the same time is the site of the security conference...
...dropped so that "a conflict not exist" between the Government and the academic community. Besides, Bok said, he had been told that the Government did not intend to call Popkin back before the grand jury anyway. Government attorneys quickly answered that if Popkin would talk the grand jury was anxious to listen. With that, Judge W. Arthur Garrity concluded that Popkin should go to jail until the grand jury is dissolved, which may happen...