Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most powerful economic policymakers, was also in trouble in the Senate. Lance had asked for more time before he had to sell his 200,000 shares of National Bank of Georgia stock (TIME, July 25), and it had seemed assured that the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee would grant the delay. But last week, after newspapers covered Lance with the appearance of new improprieties, the committee stalled and invited him to testify this week. That forced Lance, as Tennessee Democrat James Sasser put it, "to twist in the wind for a few more days...
Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was burbling with good humor at the end of his three-day official visit to Washington last week. His talks, he said, had produced a chance to establish "real peace" after "the delay of almost a generation." President Carter seemed almost equally optimistic. "I believe we have laid the groundwork now," he said, "and barring some unforeseen difficulties, that will lead to the Geneva Conference in October." He also suggested that such a conference could well lead to eventual compromise. "We've not found any of them to be so adamant in their positions that...
Finally last week, in an effort to confound his enemies and reinforce his own political position, Prime Minister Ian Smith announced a move that would inevitably delay, if not scuttle whatever chances existed for a negotiated settlement: he called a snap general election the first in three years, to be held Aug. 31. Explained Smith: "It was clear to me that the British believe they are dealing with a divided and weak Rhodesia. I believe we should take action to remove any such illusion...
...Pyongyang's official Central News Agency acknowledged that the Chinook's violation of North Korea's airspace might have been "unintentional." The key factor that helped to keep the situation cool was that Washington and Pyongyang both want to avoid an increase in tensions that might delay the departure of U.S. troops from South Korea. At week's end, Carter welcomed Schwanke's release and the return of the bodies. But Press Secretary Jody Powell said the President "deplored the loss of life and the excessive reaction to an unarmed and inadvertent intrusion...
Newspapers across the country were particularly hard hit. The major snafu was in getting wire service copy. A.P. officials say that the blackout caused about a 1½hr. delay in moving copy, but in a number of cities the wait was considerably longer. U.P.I, was not even that lucky. Without A.P.'s back-up system of regional computers, U.P.I, had to dictate its New York stories by phone. U.P.I, could not resume normal operations until 6 p.m. the next...