Word: callings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bobbing up and down in the crush like a crazed jack-in-the-box and still screaming "Even 17 D's!" Raymond Elbin, wearing the apple red coat of another clearinghouse, is offering to buy 17 $100,000 Treasury bonds next December (the "D's" in his call) at no price change. Cahnman and Elbin begin bargaining nose to nose, yelling and jabbing fingers in each other's faces. Eventually they agree on a price and, presto, Cahnman has sold 17 of his December bonds to Elbin...
...Nunn that the Communist regime heartily endorses the U.S. military presence in the Far East. The Senators even heard, they said, that an expanded U.S. naval presence in the Western Pacific was "regarded favorably by the Chinese." One Chinese officer told the Americans that he hoped U.S. warships would call at China's ports...
Twenty-two state legislatures have already passed resolutions asking Congress to call a Constitutional Convention, the first since the basic law of the land was framed in 1787, to consider the no-deficit amendment. At least twelve states are expected to join the bandwagon by late spring, easily meeting the constitutional requirement that petitions be approved by 34 states. Said Oregon State Senator Jason Boe, president of the National Conference of State Legislatures, which has led the convention campaign: "It's going to come on like a freight train...
Ieng Sary, 48, Pol Pot's Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister. Instead of righting, he sent a distress call to Bangkok by way of the Khmer Rouge and was scooped up by a Thai helicopter. One day later, he arrived in Peking pledging that he would fight...
...relatively small size of the ETA organization is misleading. It can probably call on no more than 300 men for terrorist activity at any time; another 300 provide intelligence, cover and shelter. But as Carlos Garaicoechea, president of the moderate Basque Nationalist Party says, "You cannot minimize the strength of ETA." Its resources include an estimated $3.5 million stolen from banks and factory payroll offices last year, as well as uncalculated amounts of revolutionary taxes" exacted from frightened Basque businessmen...