Word: dom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom he was the rear end of a stage horse to her head, to David Steinberg, with whom he was the sympathetic bartender to Steinberg's milk-drinking mama's boy. Last week he was a sane patient telling his troubles to a nutty psychiatrist played by Dom DeLuise...
With the approach of Prime Minister Dom Mintoff's Jan. 15 deadline for Britain to either pay more money or give up its bases on Malta, the negotiations took on some of the overtones of an international poker game. Mintoff kept insisting that Britain pay a $33.8 million rent hike over last year's $13 million. The British, holding the line at a proposed $11.7 million increase, evacuated 6,000 military dependents and began moving R.A.F. planes and personnel to bases on Sicily and Cyprus...
...home, "Deadline Dom's" bluff was psychologically strengthened by 2,000 or so of his Laborites, who marched through the streets of Valletta, chanting slogans and stoning buildings. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Edward Heath was being urged to up the ante by two of his NATO partners, Italy and the U.S. The Nixon Administration reportedly suggested that NATO could help raise the package to $35.1 million; just before the NATO Council held a round of meetings on the Malta situation, its secretary-general, Joseph Luns, flew to London to talk to Heath...
When one love-smitten member of Malta's 55-man Parliament neglected legislative duties last week for marriage and a brief honeymoon, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff promptly told the entire house to take a five-day recess. There was nothing festive about the holiday. Maltese opinion is sharply split over Mintoffs order that British troops either pay higher rents or quit the island (TIME, Jan. 10). With tensions rising as his Jan. 15 deadline approached and with only a one-vote parliamentary advantage, Mintoff was afraid to risk a vote of confidence while the groom...
Evacuation. The legislative holiday was one in a series of bizarre events on the tiny Mediterranean island brought on by "Deadline Dom" and his decree. He wants a $33.8 million hike over the present rentals of $13 million a year that the British pay for their bases. Since Malta is no longer strategically vital, London is willing to pay an additional $11.7 million and no more. To underscore British determination, Whitehall last week flew in a party of expert "dismantlers" to knock down its facilities. Evacuation began of 4,994 British dependents aboard R.A.F. VC-10s at Luqa Airport...