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Word: controled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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FOUNDATIONS. Even harder hit than the oil industry were the country's nonprofit foundations. They are easy political prey. Feared by some liberals because they represent aggregations of tremendous wealth over which there is no public control, the foundations are also mistrusted by conservatives because many of them support liberal causes with tax-free resources. In a move that was as political as it was economic, the Senate committee departed from the House bill to substitute a .2% tax on assets for a 7½% tax on net investment income and capital gains. It also went far beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: The Relief and Reform Bill | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Once inside the cockpit, Minichiello held the carbine at the flight engineer's head and ordered Pilot Cook to head for New York. Cook laconically radioed the FAA control center in Oakland: "Rerouting to change to New York on account of hijacking." FBI agents hastened to Kennedy Airport, but in the meantime Cook persuaded the skyjacker to let him put down at Denver to refuel and allow the passengers and three of the four stewardesses to disembark. Fearful of making a dangerous situation worse, ground personnel did not intervene. After the Denver stop, the red and white jet took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The 6,900-Mile Skyjack | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Minichiello, guzzling coffee to stay awake, was sometimes brusque, sometimes polite, alternately vague and acute. As the Jet approached Rome's Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino airport, Minichiello issued an elaborate set of instructions to the control tower. The plane was to be directed to a remote parking spot; a "police chief" was to drive up alone and unarmed, and come aboard in his shirtsleeves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The 6,900-Mile Skyjack | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...maximum age for military reserve duty from 49 to 55. It also issued its own communique announcing "concern for Lebanese territorial and political integrity." No one doubted that the Israelis were prepared to punish fedayeen attacks from Lebanon, or to react forcefully if the fedayeen caused Helou to lose control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LEBANON: ALONG THE ARAFAT TRAIL | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...minor presidential candidate. Though he won only 3.6% of the vote and was eliminated in the first round, Rocard came across as an incisive, articulate and iconoclastic politician. He labeled the Communists "retrograde bureaucrats," denounced the Czechoslovak invasion, demanded that France withdraw from NATO and called for total worker control of private business. In his campaign for the Assembly, Rocard told audiences that France must discard its "model of American capitalism." He also criticized the Gaullist regime for failing to provide adequate schools and transport for satellite communities like Les Yvelines. Couve, gamely making the rounds of shopkeepers, stressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Eternal Non | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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