Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DEC. 4-13. Kissinger, in Paris again, was still optimistic...
...DEC. 14. Nixon sent an ultimatum, giving Hanoi 72 hours to resume serious negotiations...
...DEC. 18. The bombers flew north...
When Dallas Lawyer-Businessman Robert Strauss was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME, Dec. 18), many McGovernites prepared for the worst. They expected him to do to them what they had done to so many of their adversaries in the party-dump them. But that is not his style of politics. Since his election three weeks ago, he has been trying to bring some cohesion to the fractured Democrats. In fact, he wants the party to be a family ball. "Goddam!" he says. "Let's make this party a place where you can have a laugh...
...doctors-who are in Uganda under a British-aid program. The British government, which pays 40% of their salaries, had announced that these subsidies would be phased out over a two-year period. In his broadcast Amin appeared to say that British-aid employees would have to decide by Dec. 31 whether to stay on at "local salaries" -that is, by taking a 40% pay cut-or leave the country. Later he softened the blow a bit, however, by announcing that some aid employees could stay on until their contracts expire, provided that they can pass a "screening" next month...