Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech, he vaulted over a fence to plunge into a crowd of well-wishers, while his anxious Secret Service guards tried to catch up as best they could. As people applauded, cheered and reached for the President's outstretched hand, it was clear that Carter had patched up at least some of his problems with farmers in this part of the country...
Until last week, no one had been certain that Strongman Balaguer and his loyal generals would actually leave. In May, when it became clear that Balaguer's right-wing Reformist Party was losing the election badly, the generals had ordered a halt to the vote counting. Immediately there was heavy pressure, both from within the country and from Washington. Jimmy Carter sent word that if Balaguer attempted a coup d'état, the U.S. would order sanctions against the illegal regime. Balaguer's supporters resented the interference, but they got the message...
Notwithstanding Paul's earnest exhortation, his funeral was hardly over before outside pressure groups began agitating over the sort of man who should become the next Pope. The ultraconservative religious movement Civilta Cristiana plastered Rome with posters demanding "a preacher of crystal-clear doctrine and a custodian of truth against the current heresy." Other right-wingers who follow France's semischismatic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre drew up a broadside linking certain papabili (possible Popes) with Freemasonry. At the other end of the ideological spectrum, the U.S.-based Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope issued in Rome...
When New York Times Reporter Myron Farber, 40, was tossed into a New Jersey jail two and a half weeks ago for refusing to give his notes to a trial judge, the issue seemed reasonably clear-cut. As of last week, it proved to be anything...
Later, the Administration tried to make it clear that it was serious. In background sessions with newsmen, Administration spokesmen outlined a three-pronged program. First, they said, the Federal Reserve Board would be taking steps, in concert with other central banks, to strengthen the greenback, and had already been moving "more actively" in buying dollars to prop up their price. Second, the Administration would step up efforts to get Congress to pass Carter's energy program, which would reduce oil imports and thus stem the drain of dollars out of the U.S. Indeed, Carter personally lobbied House members...