Word: broader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the topics are of immediate concern, such as the trips this week of Vance to the Middle East and Young to the Caribbean. Yet the four attempt to keep a broader perspective. Says one participant: "We try to look down the road to where we hope to be four years from...
...stopover in Charleston. The spectacle of thousands of people turning out in 100° temperatures to cheer the presidential motorcade as it wound through Charleston's narrow myrtle-scented streets evoked familiar campaign memories, but Carter quickly made clear to the legislators that he had a much broader-and more distant-audience in mind...
...support of 63 members: 43 from his own Likud bloc, 16 from Israel's two right-wing religious parties, former General Ariel Sharon and a colleague who represent the conservative Shlomzion Party, new Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and one independent. Begin had hoped to build a sturdier and broader-based coalition by getting the support of the centrist, 15-member Democratic Movement for Change. Talks between the parties bogged down on foreign policy. To the dismay of DMC Leader Yigael Yadin, Likud refused to soften its stand on the West Bank or on the issue of new Israeli settlements...
...between their graduation in 1946 and his selection by Carter as CIA director. Turner is, however, working to develop a closer relationship. Although CIA directors have always carried the extra title of director of Central Intelligence, Turner is the first to use an office away from Langley for his broader D.C.I, duties. This second rack for his second hat is a suite of five rooms in the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House. He spends at least a fourth of his working hours there and sees Carter alone for a half-hour every Tuesday and Friday...
...fact. Laetrilemania seems to be only one facet of a broader rebellion. The signs of revolt are everywhere-from the refusal of motorists to buckle their seat belts to the fascination with occult healing. Some feminists insist on teaching themselves how to perform their own gynecological examinations in order to regain control, as they put it, of their own bodies from the male-dominated medical profession. Vastly different ideologies may be at play, but these grievances express a common discontent with officially proclaimed wisdom about public health. Though he himself is suffering from cancer (and refuses to take Laetrile...