Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford called the compromise "a fair and equitable solution," but anti-aid, pro-Greece Congressmen remained bitterly opposed. Indiana Democrat John Brademas charged that approval by the House would amount to "capitulating to a form of blackmail of the U.S. Government." Turkey has threatened to close U.S. military bases if aid is not resumed this week. The Administration insisted that lifting the embargo is the only way to create a negotiating climate in which the U.S. can help achieve a Cyprus settlement. Turkey has indicated that it will not enter serious negotiations so long as it is under pressure from...
Hopes for Peace. Now, more than half a century after the Revolution, this is the era of what the party calls "the new Soviet man." The Bolsheviks would hardly recognize him. He is not a liberal democrat, but he would like to be a consumer. He is a patriot, even a chauvinist, but he is friendlier to foreigners than his police force appreciates. He probably does not want to read The Gulag Archipelago even if he could, but he thought Arthur Hailey's Airport, a bestseller in the Soviet Union, was fascinating. He drinks too much, his government says...
...encourage exploration, the Democrat-sponsored bill would allow independent producers to charge as much as $2 per thousand cu. ft. for "new" gas. Gas from newly developed wells brought in by major oil companies would be sold at a fixed price of up to 750 per thousand cu. ft. Both the White House and the Senate Democrats would hold the price of "old" gas from wells already in production at roughly its present level to soften the economic impact of the higher new gas prices. The White House, however, has called for decontrol of all new gas, allowing the price...
...Democrat Hugh Carey was an obscure politician before his election as New York's Governor last year, his oilman brother Edward was almost invisible. Yet had it not been for Edward, Hugh Carey might not be in office at all. As the secretive, quietly ambitious chief and sole owner of the sprawling Carey Energy Corp., Edward Michael Carey bankrolled his brother's campaign to the tune of $1 million...
More important, it raised questions about whether Soviet controllers had sufficient capability to safely manage two missions simultaneously. Carl Duckett, the CIA's deputy director for science and technology, expressed deep doubts about that last month in testimony before Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire's Senate subcommittee on appropriations. In response, Proxmire urged NASA to postpone the mission until the Salyut cosmonauts returned to earth. But NASA officials rejected the idea, saying that they had full confidence in the Soviet flight controllers...