Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have just about given up on the Secretary and work through Congress instead. Friction arose, for example, over Nixon's opposition to helping Soviet Jews through the Jackson Amendment, but Jewish leaders had no difficulty discussing it with him. One of Nixon's Jewish backers, Industrialist Max Fisher of Detroit, arranged such a talk. Fisher also set up a meeting with Nixon in which Jewish leaders urged intervention with the Soviet Union to lift the death sentences given two Leningrad Jews who had tried to hijack a plane and flee the Soviet Union. Nixon and Kissinger did petition Moscow...
Chrysler Corp. (Detroit), M-60A1 battle tanks; $220.4 million...
American Motors Corp. (Detroit), Jeeps; $156.5 million...
...aborted except for the most extreme circumstances. Despite the clearly established medical facts, the legal status of second-trimester abortions-at least in the view of some hospital administrators-has become clouded. Largely as a result of the Edelin verdict, Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Hutzel Hospital in Detroit and Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh, among others, have imposed twelve-to 16-week limits on abortions...
...Dale with a new kind of plastic body that would be safe in crashes at speeds of up to-50 m.p.h. The car would also get 70 miles per gal. of gas and cost less than $2,000. Such claims went well beyond the visions and capacities of Detroit's giants, yet Peterson printed Carmichael's tall talk with virtually no skepticism. He soon learned the dangers of reporting unconfirmed technical claims without any disclaimers. Last month the Dale bubble burst when the Dallas police issued a warrant for the arrest of Carmichael and her creative crew...