Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President decided that seeing Bukovsky last week would be a bit much; after all, the handsome, dark-haired activist had just gone before a congressional commission to urge the U.S. to wage a cold war against the Soviet Union until it relented on human rights. Bukovsky was rescheduled to call this week. The small White House gesture of delay, in the words of one official, showed a desire "to cool it without backing down...
...level." He urges a distinction between "trying to influence other countries, [which will mean] some fruitless endeavor and may get us in all sorts of trouble," and being "just prepared to say where we stand." Carter referred to the difficult balancing act between these two positions during a courtesy call at the Department of State. Said he: "I've got to be careful not to make a serious mistake, while at the same time I've got to be careful not to be too timid...
Dressed in his carefully tailored corduroys, Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau moved with an athlete's swift stride to the luncheon table at Blair House during the final hours of his courtesy call on Neighbor Jimmy Carter...
Trudeau did not sound bitter about Nixon's nasty description of him, as revealed by the Watergate tapes. He could understand, said Trudeau, why somebody might call him an "asshole," as Nixon had done. Really, he went on, Nixon had been good to Canada, even kindly in phone calls and small courtesies to Trudeau personally...
...effort to get Galante's name into print. The reason: they suspect that Galante is trying to increase the Mob's already heavy involvement in narcotics. The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration seemed particularly interested in publicizing Galante's activities. Writes TIME Correspondent John Tompkins: "A cold call a few weeks ago to DEA intelligence in New York resulted in a great deal of talk on a subject that the agency is usually rather quiet about...