Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Europe, the area of highest foreign policy priority, which has been getting surprisingly low-level attention from the U.S. It will be Ford's first trip there as President, and he regards his European debut as a crucially important opportunity to reassure Western leaders that they can count on the U.S. to come to Europe's defense, despite U.S. losses in Indochina. Moreover, foreign leaders will be closely sizing up Ford as a man to see if this unelected President conveys an impression of strength, wisdom, reliability and leadership...
...Tang, the U.S. helicopters waited for darkness to make it easier to evade Cambodian fire and then began pulling out the Marines. In Washington at 9:55 a.m., Scowcroft told Ford: "Mr. President, we are reasonably sure that all of the Marines are out." The casualty count was five dead, 70 to 80 wounded and 16 missing and presumed dead after a damaged helicopter crashed into the gulf. A few hours later, all of the Marines left Utapao and returned to Okinawa, thus meeting the Thai deadline for getting...
...iron shoe hangs by the nail Once more and nobody has cared a damn. Stick to the last of the leprechaun--I, too, Have meddled with the anvil of our trade... THE TALES OF IRELAND The thousand tales of Ireland sink. I leave Unfinished what I had begun nor count As gain the youthful frenzy of those years...
...tourists or students simply failed to leave. Tens of thousands more are spirited in by professional smugglers, who command as much as $1,500 for their services. Others make their way by outright fraud. One Miami woman had hustled 14 aliens into the country at last count. She married six, her two daughters each married three, and her common-law husband took two more as wives...
...overwhelmingly to send an only slightly modified bill back to the White House. Administration officials have hinted at another veto, but the chances of the bill becoming law are nonetheless fairly strong. So many Senators favored the bill that the Senate last week did not bother to take a count, but passed it by voice vote. In the House, the bill passed by a margin of 293 to 115, or three more votes than would be necessary to override another no from the White House...