Word: dispatcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bevin flew back to London two days later and [made] a memorable speech in the House of Commons. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure." The immediate problems of Europe were "food, coal, transport, houses, opportunities for a decent life...
...caught and killed by the Chinese. The Chinese have advanced during the war from a fourth-rate army to a second-rate army. [It] has spirit. It glows. The men are willing to die. They mix and tangle with the Japanese with a burning hate that is good." The dispatch was given a byline, the first exception ever made by TIME Founder Henry R. Luce to his 16-year rule of anonymous journalism in TIME...
...provided Zaïre with fuel, medicine and equipment to crush a rebellion-cum-invasion there. It was the Carter Administration that promised to send an Army battalion to the Sinai peninsula to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces and encouraged the creation of a Rapid Deployment Force for quick dispatch to a possible Middle East skirmish; Reagan has simply executed those plans. Carter also resumed "nonlethal" military aid to El Salvador almost a year before Reagan took office, and approved an emergency shipment of arms to that country in the last days of his Administration...
...Pentagon still gives high marks to Reagan. The Joint Chiefs like his uncomplicated, almost uncritical enthusiasm for military power. Unless one of Reagan's far-flung operations backfires badly, aides say he is not likely to shrink from the dispatch of U.S. military might for a show of force whenever he deems it useful...
...when courts must grant stays. "Truly perverse," said Dissenter Marshall, contending that an inmate condemned to death now has fewer protections than other prisoners. Though civil rights lawyers did not think there would be any immediate increase in executions, all federal courts are free to move with greater dispatch on the habeas corpus petitions of 1,200 death-row prisoners...