Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing concern that such battles between the President and Congress had to be fought at all. Carter, like his modern predecessors, resents congressional interference in U.S. foreign policy, particularly the post-Viet Nam laws that limit U.S. intervention abroad or the shipment of military aid to friendly governments resisting Communist insurgency. These restrictions in turn inhibit the U.S. in negotiations; by not being able to threaten the use of force, the U.S. loses its edge at the bargaining table...
Much of the evidence used in the case against Truong and Humphrey, accused of passing classified documents to Communist Viet Nam, was developed after bugging devices and a hidden camera revealed the conspiracy. Even though Congress is now considering a bill to ban warrantless surveillance, the Justice Department wanted to pursue its case in the courts. If Truong and Humphrey could be convicted and their conviction sustained on appeal, U.S. Presidents could continue to order the surveillance of suspected foreign espionage agents without prior court approval...
...quickly traced one of Truong's contacts to the U.S.I.A. The suspect turned out to be Humphrey, a middle-ranking official who had served three years in Viet Nam and was desperately trying to extricate his Vietnamese mistress and her children from Saigon, where they remained after the Communist takeover in 1975. Moving in, the FBI borrowed a Vietnamese woman agent from the CIA to act as a courier between Truong and Vietnamese officials in Paris. It also planted a hidden TV camera in Humphrey's office. In June, the woman met Truong at a shopping center...
...Aldo Moro. In local elections affecting two provinces and 816 cities and towns, voters turned out in record numbers (3.4 million, or 10% of the electorate). Shunning the extremes, they cast their ballots for the parties of the political center and handed an unexpected loss to Italy's Communist Party. But as if to prove that the country would have no reprieve from violence, terrorists of the Red Brigades and other radical groups carried out a series of bombings and almost daily hit-and-run attacks against isolated victims in several cities...
...Lines' $778 million purchase of 19 European-made A300 Airbuses, charging that the deals had been "unfairly subsidized" by the German, French and Spanish governments. Boeing never had strong grounds for complaint anyway-it accounts for more than half of all commercial plane sales in the non-Communist world. To keep up with traffic growth and meet noise and pollution standards, the airlines are generally expected to buy up to 1,500 planes worth $80 billion between now and 1990, and that is enough business for all the builders...