Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ward 22 Alderman Frank D. Stemberk tried a new approach. With $500 from the ward treasury and $220 from local businessmen, he offered a $1 bounty on every rat killed. Residents armed themselves with bats, homemade spears and flashlights, and waited on their porches for the rats to appear...
...crime-specific" shifts, assigned to certain times and areas as crime statistics vary. This, however, runs counter to the traditional union practice of assigning all shifts on the basis of seniority, with the most experienced officers getting the best hours. The most likely way out of the dilemma would appear to be either the elimination of the task force or an agreement excluding it from the bargaining unit, and therefore exempting it from union seniority rules. Neither route, however, is popular...
...well"--is a difficult touchy task. To say that playwright Philip Hayes Dean's one-man play, Paul Robeson, starring James Earl Jones and directed by Charles Nelson Reilly, does as sensitive a job as could have been done, given the format and the conventions of the theater, may appear too easy. For this production has upset many of the people who were closest to Robeson, including his son, who has denounced the play, and a close friend who led a band of picketers who marched in front of the Colonial Theater when the play opened in Boston two weeks...
...foreign policy is at a critical juncture and in much jeopardy. His hopes for engineering a peace in the Middle East have been further frustrated by the fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians in Lebanon; his attempts to forge a new strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviets appear stalled (see THE WORLD). His one breakthrough has been the Panama Canal treaty, but conservative opposition to it has been building. Hoping to counter some of the setbacks, the White House announced last week that Carter will leave in late November for an eleven-day whirlwind tour of Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria...
...Congress, his domestic programs are being carved up. The two leaders on Capitol Hill, Tip O'Neill and Bob Byrd, appear to sense a certain weakness in the President, and so they are assembling small fiefs around themselves. They agree with his programs-mostly. They want him to succeed-mostly. But they are not certain about him, and so they stand at arm's length, making sure they protect their own turf. A little of the power that Carter surely lost in the Lance affair was gathered in by Bob Byrd...