Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Enders, an Assistant Secretary of State, launched the idea in a speech at Yale before it had been discussed with other policymakers. Treasury Secretary William Simon said the speech surprised not only him but also "many people in the State Department." Representative Henry Reuss, Democrat of Wisconsin, observed in dismay: "I just wonder what it shall profit the American consumer of oil if he is freed from the tyranny of the OPEC only to be ripped off by the U.S. oil companies...
...President is marshaling his domestic energies not a moment too soon. Clouds of doubt and dismay are forming over Capitol Hill, and not only among Democrats. "What happened to Jerry on the way down the avenue?" asks one disgruntled G.O.P. House leader. Once one of the congressional colleagues most open to consultation, Ford is now perceived as a loner who does not defer to Congress any more than did his isolated predecessor in the White House. "I don't know what's going on down there," says a top House Republican. "I don't know...
...Editorial Page Editor Joe H. Stroud that Damman be dumped. The Republicans countered by sending their lawyers to meet with Free Press editors and the two reporters, who, says Tyson, were told by the newspaper's counsel not to engage in debate. The result, to Tyson's dismay, was a Free Press editorial reversal, again written by Stroud, 48 hours before the election, stating that the paper did not have enough facts to support the charges. Angered, the city news staff hit back with a post-election story carefully substantiating the original article on Damman, now Lieutenant Governor...
...accumulated rage that erupted at Bet She'an reflected a growing sense in Israel that the country faces yet another life-and-death crisis-perhaps the most severe in its brief 26-year history. The Israelis watched with sullen dismay when Arab leaders at the Rabat summit recognized the P.L.O. as the sole official representative of Palestinians everywhere, including those in the Israeli-occupied Gaza and West Bank. They listened hi cold fury as Yasser Arafat at the United Nations (TIME, Nov. 25) purportedly offered them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel...
...cozy arrangement. Five federal drug agents flew to Chile to finger smugglers. Chilean police arrested and eventually expelled the suspects on a nonstop flight to the U.S.-often after days of torture to check on any possible antijunta activities. The arrangement is still in effect, to the dismay of at least 16 Chileans who are currently being tried, one by one, in federal courts...