Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high school student I find myself with a new and sincere interest in politics. For this I thank Jody Powell and Hamilton Jordan, two intelligent, charming and handsome men, who have humanized the Washington scene and sparked many of us into feeling a little bit closer...
Although post-Franco Spain is eager for closer relations with Western Europe, joining NATO is not an immediate prospect. Membership, in any case, will not affect a Washington-Madrid defense cooperation pact, which runs until 1981. Washington already has a warm relationship with Suarez. There was also admiration for Spain's progress in Britain last week. "The secret of Juan Carlos' success," reflected one Spain watcher, "was his rejection of the old men of the civil war and the middle-aged leaders of the Opus Dei [the secretive Catholic lay organization] in favor of his own generation of Spaniards...
While much attention has centered on Turner's Annapolis ties with President Carter, the two were not friends there and met only once between their graduation in 1946 and his selection by Carter as CIA director. Turner is, however, working to develop a closer relationship. Although CIA directors have always carried the extra title of director of Central Intelligence, Turner is the first to use an office away from Langley for his broader D.C.I, duties. This second rack for his second hat is a suite of five rooms in the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House...
...voted by a House committee and $3.10 by the Senate. If the Senate levels prevail, a veto is possible, and it would probably not be overridden. The $61.3 billion labor and health, education and welfare bill, which provides $2.1 billion more than Carter wants to spend, is a closer call. If the President vetoes it, he will look like a flinthearted conservative to many liberals. The White House is divided over what to do. Issues Coordinator Stu Eizenstat is urging the President to sign the bill, but Bert Lance, the budget chief, is telling him to draw the line...
...liver cancer among those who have worked with vinyl chloride. In 1958, a British physician named John Higginson was challenged by a skeptical scientific community when he suggested that 70% to 80% of all cancers are environmental in origin. Now many scientists suspect that the actual figure may be closer...