Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wearing a jaunty red-white-and-blue stocking cap, the big man schussed down the mountain trail and snow-plowed expertly to a stop. His cheeks were ruddy, his eyelashes and thick eyebrows frosted white by the -12° cold, and his grin could not have been broader. The skiing, exclaimed Gerald Ford, was "super...
...SALT accord in essence provides for equal ceilings of 2,400 on the number of iCBMs, SLBMs and heavy bombers, and 1,320 on the number of MlRVed missiles each side can have over the next ten years. The accord thus puts a medium-term cap on the numbers of certain types of offensive strategic launchers. It provides the appearance of equality. It does not, however, deal with throw-weight-the most useful, verifiable measure of relative missile capability either MlRVed or un-MITRVed...
...Caracas summit symbolizes Venezuela's new position as an emerging power in Latin America. More particularly, it also signals the emergence of ebullient, indefatigable "Cap" Pérez (see box page 48) as a Hemisphere states man to be reckoned with. Now 52, Pérez began his political career at the age of 23 as personal secretary to Rómulo Betancourt - then President of the revolutionary junta that ruled from 1945 to 1948. When Betancourt's Democratic Action Party was outlawed in 1948 by the military dictatorship led by Marcos...
Wearing a decorous gray tropical suit set off by a brightly flowered tie, Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés ("Cap") Pérez had a rare on-the-record interview with TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch at the presidential residence in Caracas. Insulated from the noisy center of the capital by the spacious, well-tended gardens that surround the sprawling, colonial-style mansion, Pérez was relaxed but assured in answering questions about his nation's foreign policy. Excerpts...
...trial, he recalls, "I didn't know anything about the death penalty. I didn't believe that they would give it to a black man for killing another black man." Fowler has maintained a certain fatalistic nonchalance through his 14-month confinement. He wears a cap with the motto "Death Before Dishonor," and refuses cigarettes because "Smoking is hazardous to my health...