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...under President Eisenhower, the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare-the paper rarely crusaded. For four days after the New York Times published the classified Pentagon papers in 1971, the Post did not even mention the disclosures. The initial reaction of the younger William Hobby, then executive editor: "Aw, that's no story." When Hobby ran for Lieutenant Governor in 1972, the Post published four Page One editorials supporting him during the Democratic primary, yet never mentioned his connection with the paper...
...Aw, Bluey, wait awhile," Greer said. "Lots of things could change for you. It doesn't seem like it, but they've got to, don't they?" Greer said. "Don't they...
...from Democrats and independent voters than all of the other contenders for their party's presidential nomination combined. But as the Democrats jostle and jockey on the hustings, the man they seek to unseat remains an elusive and increasingly formidable target. Ronald Reagan, ambling along at his own aw-shucks pace toward announcing for reelection, has perked up his poll ratings with a personal popularity that continues to outpace that of his policies or his party...
...Japan, Soviet ships and aircraft warned outsiders away from their search of the area where the plane went down. The U.S. moved five F-15 jet fighters from Okinawa to northern Japan, but did not send them into the area. The U.S. Air Force also dispatched at least one AW ACS surveillance plane to Hokkaido. In the tense situation, both superpowers raised their alert status in the region, but no one wanted to provoke yet another air tragedy...
With the arrival of French airpower in N'Djamena, the U.S. announced that it was withdrawing the two AW ACS surveillance planes that it had sent to the area a month ago in the hope that Mitterrand would intervene directly. The Administration feared that if Chad fell to Gaddafi, the Libyan leader would be in a position to threaten such U.S. allies as Egypt and, especially, the Sudan. The AW ACS planes never took part in the Chadian war, but they became an unfortunate symbol of the differences between Paris and Washington over how to deal with the crisis...