Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faced with the growing opposition of conservatives in his home state, the normally dovish Church has taken a tough line on the Kremlin since he revealed the presence of the troops. As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Church had been counted on by the Administration to direct the drive for the two-thirds vote SALT II needs for Senate approval. But Church now threatens to hold up the treaty until the issue of the Soviet troops has been settled. Protested one pro-SALT Senator: "The s.o.b. has sold us out for his own private purpose." Said another: "Whatever credibility...
...with such tactics, I lost as often as I won. John Ehrlichman considered mine a cowardly procedure and decided he would teach me how to deal with Laird. Following the best administrative theory of White House predominance, Ehrlichman, without troubling to touch any bureaucratic or congressional bases, transmitted a direct order to Laird to relinquish some Army-owned land in Hawaii for a national park. Laird treated this clumsy procedure the way a matador handles the lunges of a bull. He accelerated his plan to use the land for two Army recreation hotels. Using his old congressional connections...
...specific step-by-step plan for the truce, nor was it seeking an all-parties truce conference involving direct negotiations between Israel and the P.L.O. "We're not that stupid," says an Administration source. "We will deal with the Israelis and the U.N., and we will deal with the Lebanese. The Lebanese will deal with the Palestinians and with the Christian militia...
...there's any violence tomorrow, it will be brought on by the authorities," Edgar Bittone of the Coalition for Direct Action (CDA), the Clamshell Alliance offshoot that is organizing the protest, said yesterday...
Those who never set foot in a nuclear facility are not safe from direct exposure, either. Gofman makes the simple calculation that a full-fledged nuclear economy of 1000 large plants would produce an extra 1980 cancer deaths annually if only 0.001 per cent of the radiation leaked into the environment. And Gofman considers 99,999 per cent containment perfection to as far be human capability as the nuclear industry considers Gofman to be "beyond the pale of reasonable communication...