Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combat troops had not been sighted, part of the intelligence community felt that the headquarters signified their presence. In mid-July increased reconnaissance finally revealed the troops. They were in Soviet uniform and were operating Soviet equipment, but were they Soviets or Cubans? Satellites were sent in for a closer look. This time the photos revealed that the troops were indeed Soviets...
...eccentricities of Southern politicians. "Their style," he says, "is a stimulating mix of the byzantine and the evangelical." This week, after a year and a half as a Nation writer in New York, Isaacson begins a new assignment as a congressional correspondent in Washington, D.C., thus moving even closer to the heart of Dixie - not to mention the byzantine and the evangelical...
...numbed British officials sought out I.R.A. leaders for discussions on a truce. The I.R.A. outlined its demands, including British withdrawal by the mid-1970s. The British government refused, distrustful of the I.R.A. Since then, the Provos and the much smaller I.N.L. A. have forged closer links with other international groups, notably the Palestinians and the Basques, and received assistance in obtaining weapons and guerrilla training. They have also gained more sophisticated expertise in explosives. Last week's deadly precision was a far cry from the crudely made devices of earlier times that often proved more dangerous to those...
There is always something ominous about Segal's images; no American sculptor today runs his work closer to theater. The theatricality becomes particularly intense in his painted sculptures, where the coating of figures with primary red, yellow or blue gives them a ferocious visual punch while rendering them, in Segal's words, "more like abstract shafts of color." To take the colors associated with the most rigorous abstractionists of 20th century art - Mondrian and Barnett Newman - and use them in a piece like The Costume Party, begun in 1965, has a perverse aspect...
...most important is Church. According to the congressional scorecards maintained by both liberal and conservative lobbying organizations, Church is closer to the Democratic center than to the left. But because of his celebrity as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, defeating him would be a big victory for the New Right. And he is particularly vulnerable because Idaho usually votes conservative in federal elections...