Word: callings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killing harmless deer isn't bad enough, now the "animals" that call themselves hunters have to put the blame on their wives: "Deer season was the only chance each year of really getting free of feminine domestication [Jan. 15]." If they want to be "free" and out in nature, why don't they mow their lawns...
Among them was George Bush, 54, a former Congressman, CIA director and U.S. envoy to Peking, who likes to be described as "the thinking man's candidate." Said he: "Call me a conservative, but one with compassion." Bush lunched with G.O.P. Congressmen, breakfasted with reporters and made a low-key speech in Georgetown...
Some Soviet officials have warned that if the Teng visit proves to be an extravaganza of bearbaiting, they may further delay a strategic arms limitation treaty or scuttle it altogether. At the very least, high-level Soviet officials deplore the possibility of what some call a "love feast" between the U.S. and the Chinese...
...implement the Anglo-American plan for Rhodesia has bogged down. The President may even indirectly solicit Teng's ideas about how China might help to counter Soviet expansionism on the African continent. In addition, Carter was likely to feel Teng out for any discernible shift from the traditional Chinese call for unilateral U.S. withdrawal from South Korea...
...what Khomeini really means when he talks about turning Iran into an "Islamic republic." But in a number of interviews he has asserted that he supports a parliamentary democracy for Iran. First would come the creation of a Khomeini-named revolutionary council, which would appoint a caretaker government, call national elections for a new constituent assembly, and then hold a public referendum on a new constitution. Although Islamic law would presumably become part of the legal system, the Ayatullah's aides have said that religious strictures would not be applied as rigidly as in Saudi Arabia or Libya...