Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with 1977 sales of $1.5 billion and profits of $56.7 million. But the acquisition of U.S. Lines in 1969 for $104 million in cash and stock was, Sullivan admits, a grave mistake. U.S. Lines lost $1.5 million in 1970, whereupon Sullivan began looking for a buyer for that arm of the Kidde empire. He agreed to give R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. a six-year option, but trustbusters blocked the sale because Reynolds had acquired McLean's Sea-Land operation...
...Editors: Your assertion in "Israel Severs the Arm" [March 27] that "as might have been expected, the Israeli response vastly exceeded the provocation" is outrageous. What would you recommend as an appropriate response to the wanton murder of innocent babies, children and adults by terrorists who brazenly claim credit and then hide behind a national boundary and prepare to strike again? The Israeli response was restrained...
Menachem Begin may have "severed the arm," but in so doing he clearly gave the P.L.O. a much needed victory. The savagery of the bus attack pales when compared with the indiscriminate and "safe" slaughter of civilians launched by a supposedly "responsible" government...
...Madame Binh was foreign minister for the Provisional Revolutionary Government, the political arm of the NLF, founded in 1969. She is presently minister of health in the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam...
Speed: average. Throwing arm: mediocre. Potential: may have started too late to make it. Such a rating from a major-league batting instructor might cause some ballplayers to hang up their gloves. But in this case the instructor was Mickey Mantle and the player, Mickey Mantle Jr., who at 23 wants to give baseball "my best shot." Mickey Jr. played for a Florida military academy in his teens, but feeling that he was "too immature to cope with the pressures of being Mickey Mantle's son," went off to sell insurance in Dallas. Now trying out for a Yankee...