Word: basket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...license plate were the fingerprints of one of Soliah's sisters, Kathleen, and of a friend, James Kilgore. Kathleen Soliah is now being sought for general questioning. Authorities suspect that Kilgore was the man who hired a San Francisco mover on Sept. 21 to carry a wicker basket to a vacant lot 1½ blocks from the city's Ingleside police station. The mover became wary, looked into the basket and discovered a 14-in. pipe bomb wired to a clock. A similar bomb was found in the Harrises' apartment, leading the FBI to wonder whether they...
...least tentative hopes that the nation might be moving finally toward recovery. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey warned, however, that cost increases already in the pipeline will go on pushing up prices for several months before "the benefits of the lower pay settlements are reflected in the shopping basket." Continued price increases almost inevitably will bring on a rise in unemployment, which Healey indicated the Labor government does not intend to combat by reflating the economy. With unemployment already heading toward 1.5 million and beyond, the unions' resolve to cooperate with the government's program may weaken...
...Soviet reaction to Helsinki, U.S. officials made much of the fact that Pravda and Izvestia published the entire text of the Helsinki declaration, including the Basket Three section dealing with civil liberties, travel and the exchange of ideas. Washington was disappointed, however, that the Soviets still seemed to be resisting the granting of multiple-entry visas to journalists-a commitment explicitly mentioned in Basket Three...
...Basket Three. Most diplomatic observers were mildly encouraged by his statement that "no one should try to dictate to other peoples ... the manner in which they ought to manage their internal affairs"-though obviously he was talking more about Soviet affairs than anybody else's. Some thought he was warning that the Soviet Union would give only lip service to Basket Three, the collection of individual freedoms and rights that was the key section of the document for the U.S. and Western Europe. But there was room for optimism in Brezhnev's call for "a further development...
...delivered the following day, was a mirror image of Brezhnev's, in the sense that the points ignored by the Soviet leader were the ones stressed by the U.S. President. While Brezhnev listened to a translation through a headset and jotted notes, Ford emphasized the importance of the Basket Three principles of liberty of thought, movement, and the flow of information. He also gave measured stress to the phrase "and the possibility of change by peaceful means," citing Berlin as "a flashpoint of confrontation in the past [that] can provide an example of peaceful settlement in the future." Referring...