Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights. Almost anything has to be better than last summer [when Washington, among other things, criticized the trial and conviction of Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky]. President Carter is more experienced; he has learned from unsuccessful policies. We don't regard him as a weak President. But neither can we call him a strong President. He is a President in the making...
...chose to interpret the latest dispute as mainly an argument between Washington and Jerusalem over the timing of the Saunders mission. He was not anxious to break off negotiations, as he had done during the talks in Jerusalem last January. But on Friday the Egyptian government announced it would call its two top negotiators home from Washington for a weekend of consultations...
...specialist in Islamic philosophy and law, Khomeini lives the typically ascetic life of a mullah and hardly looks like a political leader who could galvanize a nation. Yet no less a personage than Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian Ambassador to the U.S., tried to pay a call on Khomeini in France. The reported purpose of the visit was to persuade Khomeini to return to Iran and help defuse the crisis. But Khomeini refused to see the ambassador. He will not return to Iran, he insists, until the Shah's rule has ended. Last week TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis interviewed Khomeini...
...crime." For example, expensive new communications systems have been widely installed to cut down the time it takes a police car to reach the scene of a crime. Yet the speedup proved only marginally useful; as one study revealed, victims usually wait up to an hour before they even call the police. Without citizen cooperation, says Silberman, police can do little to crack crimes. They are better off trying to stay close to the community and just walking the streets...
...deliberately remains narrower than, say, M.I.T., which is noted for such nonscientific departments as linguistics and economics. At Caltech the focus is on engineering and basic research in the "hard" sciences, especially physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry and seismology. Nuts-and-bolts technology gets little attention. "We really ought to call ourselves the California Institute of Science," argues Chemistry Professor Harry Gray...