Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Normally, such a pro-Palestinian move would anger Israel, but Jerusalem largely ignored it. Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government was relieved that Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had agreed at their Vienna meeting to delay any reconvening of the Geneva talks until autumn. One Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "This will relieve the pressure and allow a politically useful and militarily quiet summer...
Roger P. Zelt '76, chairman of the Lowell student-master search committee, said yesterday that despite the delay in the appointment. Bossert was strongly supported by students on the committee and was on the "highly recommended list" of names submitted...
...that tune, tempers were frayed in Washington as well as Saigon. Martin had drawn up a list of 500 Vietnamese to be evacuated; he refused to leave until all were safely gone. His delay prompted one Administration official to quip, "Martin got all 600 of his 500 Vietnamese out." Finally, at 5 p.m. Washington tune-it was then 5 a.m. in Saigon-Kissinger told the President that Martin was closing down the embassy and destroying its communications equipment. Minutes later, a helicopter broadcast the message: "Lady Ace Zero Nine, Code Two is aboard." Lady Ace 09 was the chopper...
...Little Time. Controversial as the decontrol plan is, Ford has at least avoided an immediate clash with Congress by delaying for a month the scheduled $1-per-bbl. increase in the tariff on imported oil. In February the President imposed the first $1-per-bbl. tariff and planned to raise it by another $2-$1 in March, another $1 in April. Congress swiftly passed a bill temporarily suspending the President's authority to post the increases. Ford vetoed the bill, but struck a compromise: he would defer adding the second dollar until May 1. As that deadline approached last...
...ordering their discriminatory activities stopped. Members of the Boston School Committee were brought to court and asked by Judge Garrity to indicate the manner in which they would act to correct the injustices they fostered. Mr. Ferrara must be aware that they responded with a vague plan after much delay, and denied any wrong doing. This continued ten years of delay in the face of yet another call to attention. Punishment would have accomplished nothing. When asking did not work and prodding failed, the Court was forced to enter the decision-making process directly...