Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unthinkable that a man like Plaquemines Parish's Chalin Perez [Aug. 28] can refuse to apply for federal grants, even though they are in the best interest of the community, because he fears federal control. It seems to me that it is about time the Federal Government did something. I thought this was supposed to be the land of "Liberty and justice for all." I don't call letting a man's wife die for lack of decent water justice. This should not be allowed to happen...
...sometimes spends all morning on a single entry, other times she does noth ing for a week. Her husband Bill, a retired quality-control inspector whom she married in 1937, works continuously too, driving to the post office to mail entries (she won't risk the mail box) and buy stamps. He scouts around for precious entry blanks, but higher postal costs have forced Mrs. Haley to cut back on the number of entries she sends...
...possible for a single low-flying aircraft to fly under our radar capabilities." NORAD is developing an "over-the-horizon" radar with greater capability for spotting low planes but, for general operational use, the system may be years away. Radar beamed from sophisticated AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) planes is already highly effective at detecting ground-hugging aircraft. But it would take a huge and prohibitively expensive fleet of such planes to make the U.S. invulnerable...
...beginning of the end for Hoffa came in 1971, when President Nixon commuted his 13-year sentence in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary for jury tampering. Once free, Hoffa set out to regain control of the union from Frank Fitzsimmons, his hand-picked successor. But Fitzsimmons had come to enjoy the power and perks and had no intention of stepping down. The mobsters, who had been flourishing during Fitzsimmons' genially relaxed reign-joining various regional Teamster bosses in lucrative loan sharking, pension-fund frauds, sweetheart contracts, management-union kickback deals and other rackets-did not want Hoffa back either. They feared...
...despite the history of U.S. intervention and penetration in most of the rest of the world, the people of South Africa, the people of the Philippines and the people of Chile continue to hope and struggle for control of their destinies. They should be a lesson to us: Allende lives...