Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taxes, the financing of his houses and other aspects of the scandal. Grand juries in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando have looked into Watergate matters. Dozens of employees of the FBI, the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the General Accounting Office have been drawn into the vortex...
Last year Congress ordered the Pentagon to trim 43,000 men from the military; Schlesinger intends to cut 58,000 by July. His budget for 1975 does add one new brigade to the Army but requires the 4,000-5,000 men to be drawn from existing noncombat ranks. Schlesinger also is considering more base cutbacks. Last spring then-Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson announced that 274 military installations in the U.S. would be closed, reduced or consolidated to save $350 million a year. Schlesinger has ordered the services to recommend this spring enough other bases that could possibly...
...development of new weapons in fiscal 1975, an amount on top of the $8.1 billion being spent for that purpose this year. Schlesinger has long believed that "the appropriate means for hedging against surprise is through an enhanced R. and D. program." The budget, the first to be drawn up under his supervision, calls for money to begin research into new missiles, a new submarine and new technology that will enable the nation to fight a limited nuclear war ?something less than the all-out holocaust of reciprocal annihilation on which U.S. nuclear strategy has been based...
...part in a successful effort from June 1968 to April 1970 to acquire the foundering Air West airline (now Hughes Air West). Thompson, regarded as a tough but fair-minded judge, found no clear criminal activity in the indictment and agreed with defense attorneys that the charges were ineptly drawn. Said the exasperated judge: "It would be a perversion of justice to require any defendant to go to trial under this particular indictment...
...piece of glass, cuts himself. Blood creeps like some blotted gargoyle over the face of a color slide--it shows the interior of a Venetian church he is restoring. Outside, their little girl has just drowned, and her red slicker is floating on the water. Already we are drawn into this world, sympathizing with the wounds it suffers, informed about it as suddenly and unexpectedly as the edge cuts John Baxter, and he feels the sudden premonition that sends him running out to his daughter...