Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always entered in half a dozen contests, but her main ambition these days is to win in the Pillsbury Bake-Off, granddaddy contest of them all. The prize is a whopping $25,000. Mrs. Haley, how ever, makes clear that what she really cares about is not the cash but the thrill of the quest. Says she: "Winning makes me think I'm not ready for the rest home yet." - Anne Constable
...wobbly moment, the Administration's winning streak in the House was endangered by the threatened gutting of a bill that would require court approval of any wiretapping done for national security reasons. Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell argued that the measure was necessary to clear up ambiguities in the present law and protect civil rights. The House began rewriting the bill to give the President a free hand to order wiretaps, a liberty that Carter did not want. But after the Democratic leadership rallied the ranks, the House passed just about what the Administration desired...
Jimmy and Tony Pro had long been buddies, but they almost came to blows in July 1967, when both were serving time in Lewisburg, Tony Pro for extortion. A fellow convict told Brill that the two argued over how to divide up Teamster turf, and Hoffa made it clear that he would give no help to Tony Pro. "Tony was explaining to Jimmy how he was going to get right back into things in New Jersey," recalled the convict. "Well, Jimmy exploded at him. 'Look,' he said, 'when you get out, you guys are going to have...
...Tudeh, or Communist, Party. This question should be related to our geographic position. We have to ask ourselves whether our geographic position will permit this or that [party or political organization. While the Shah is reluctant to spell out what he means on the record, interviews in Tehran make clear that he is concerned that an aboveground Tudeh would serve as a Trojan horse for the Soviet Union, and the Shah is reliably reported to have worried privately that in some future political crisis, legalized Iranian Communists might seek and get the "fraternal assistance" of the Soviet Union...
...Kush in the east?nearly 3,000 miles of buffer between Russia and the warm waters of the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. It is potentially a geopolitical disaster area, in which the strategic balance is shifting in favor of the U.S.S.R., and Washington has no clear idea of what to do about...