Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your story on Howard Hughes [Dec. 13]. It is ironic that a man capable of building and directing a billion-dollar conglomerate was the architect of such a pathetic paranoid prison for himself. However, his Christian aides resemble piranhas more than Christians...
...with most analyses of hypothetical combat situations, your article concerning NATO's vulnerability to a Russian attack [Dec. 13] dealt too much with machines and not enough with...
Thank God for a writer like Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote the script for Network [Dec...
Like some last-minute Christmas shopper scrambling to get it all done in time, Jimmy Carter managed to meet his deadline: he got his full Cabinet named by Dec. 25. The final announcements came last week in three televised presentations at Carter headquarters in Plains, and the biggest of the "surprises" so often forecast by the President-elect's aides was that there were so few surprises. With 18 top jobs filled, including all twelve Cabinet positions and the main economic and national-security slots, it was clear that the man who had campaigned as Mr. Outside wanted...
Rabin's resignation was triggered by a most unlikely incident. On Friday afternoon, Dec. 10, welcoming ceremonies had been scheduled at an airport near Tel Aviv for the arrival of the first three of 25 American F-15 Eagle fighters that Israel has on order (U.S. officials later indicated that the day and timing had been set by Rabin). The arrangements outraged leaders of Israel's religious parties, since the ceremony ran so close to the Sabbath sundown that it violated the spirit of the approaching holy day. Only 20% of Israeli Jews are strictly observant...