Word: chosing
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...governments and officials. U.S. Army and Air Force bases that were once lightly guarded are now fortified camps. Embassies in many capitals look like urban redoubts. As a result, terrorists are looking elsewhere for targets. In the case of the Achille Lauro, for example, it appears that the hijackers chose the cruise liner because the usual avenues of access to Israel--by land and air--have been blocked by Israeli security measures. There is also what Brian Jenkins, a Rand Corp. terrorist expert, describes as a kind of novelty factor. Says Jenkins: "If you want to stay in the headlines...
...Toulouse can and must be a starting point for a new impulse. Everything is possible if you give yourselves the means." Those were Mitterrand's encouraging words to the congress, but, perhaps symbolically, they were read to the delegates over booming loudspeakers by a party official. The President chose not to attend the three-day affair. "The party is not my business any longer," he said during a barnstorming tour of Brittany last week. But, added the man who led the Socialists to power, "I would like to see them united...
...Volcker might be tempted to move on if he sees his control of the Federal Reserve increasingly challenged. Last week the Reagan Administration announced the nomination to the Fed board of two conservatives who might diminish his policy clout. As expected, the President chose Manuel Johnson, 36, an Assistant Treasury Secretary and supply-side advocate, and Wayne Angell, 55, a Kansas banker, economist and farmer, to fill vacancies on the seven-member board. Their selection, coupled with two earlier Reagan appointments, will produce a majority of the board less likely to toe the Volcker line on monetary policy...
...nominations across the houses and the Yard. "We are postponing the elections for a week in order to make up for this one lost day," announced former Undergraduate Council Chairman Brian R. Melendez '86, who did not go after a third term as the council's head when it chose new officers last Wednesday...
...committee chose a James Stirling Sackler and drew a fire...