Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money been spent? Says one U.S. official with firsthand knowledge of the deal: "Sure, some of it went to satisfy some worldly appetites. But a lot of it, a lot more, was disbursed in a way that guaranteed us access in some extremely sensitive and useful areas. O.K., call it buying friendship. But that's what overt aid is too, isn't it? I know what we got for that dough, and it was worth every goddam cent...
Lance has proved to be a consummate politician. Before submitting the Carter budget amendments to Congress, he made a soothing phone call to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who has complained of not receiving attention from the Administration. "Yessir, Senator," Lance drawled, "you just let me know who you want to have at our briefing...
...precepts formed during the contemplative years at Harvard were never altered as he went about the job of conducting foreign policy, Kissinger said. Once on the job, a man does not learn much other than technique-he does not get new wisdom. "You are an athlete. Even if decisions call for reflection, you must depend on your instincts ... Sometimes it feels as if you were in one of those movies, sitting on the track in front of an express train. The train is bearing down on you. You know what to do if you did not have ten other things...
...firms holding the leases expressed dismay. Shell Oil charged that the delay "further jeopardizes the economic security of the nation." What happens next is unclear. The Interior Department can either appeal the ruling, possibly rewrite the impact statement, or call the deal off and return the money to the companies. Whatever it does, last week's decision is certain to delay production in the Atlantic for at least several years...
...education. As his best exegete, Art Critic Carter Ratcliff, points out, "It is as a practitioner of a dramatic, restless, 'tropical' version of the sublime that Ferrer can best be understood." The work is hot salsa too, theatrical and loose. In his way, Rafi-as his buddies call him -is the ham his elder brother, Actor Jose Ferrer, chose not to become...