Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor. One Moscow actor who chanced to be seated across a dinner table from Andropov related how the then secret-police chief reached across, the table to offer him a glass of cognac. When the actor demurred, Andropov joked: "You'd better accept. The KGB has a very long arm...
...wish to undermine support to Solidarity a cause which he must certainly condone. He Did not forbid the club from singing Solidarity's song, but merely from participating in the Voice of America broadcast. Yale University he told the Associated Press, would not "become part of anyone's propaganda arm...
...events is Lebanon contains one unfortunate error. Blinken rightly criticizes the press for using casually figures released by an organization headed by Yasser Arafat's brother. The name' of the organization, however, is not the Lebanese Red Cross, as Hlinken writes, but the Palestinian Red Crescent, which--as an arm of the PLO--is not affiliated with the International Red Cross Society. Jerome S. Forlinsky...
Foreign investors have blamed much of Canada's trouble on two policies initiated by Trudeau. In 1973 his government created the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA) to screen foreign takeovers and, more recently, to approve new foreign investment in Canada. U.S. businessmen have complained about government arm twisting to extract additional economic concessions in exchange for investment approvals. Lengthy FIRA delays in considering their investment applications have also caused many businessmen to send their money elsewhere. In 1980 Ottawa launched the National Energy Program (NEP), which was designed to increase Canadian oil and natural gas production. In addition...
Greenidge left the Herald American in 1972 and went to RPI. In addition to being sports information director there. Greenidge was also the assistant baseball coach. "I have what you call a live arm. I threw batting practice every day," he said, adding that he'd like to help out with Harvard baseball in the spring...