Word: east
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven states that allow trucks a gross weight of only 73,280 Ibs. The states on either side permit 80,000 Ibs. Truckers will do anything to avoid the weigh stations ("chicken coops") in those seven states. "You just can't make it from California to the East Coast legal," sighs Jerry Reeve, 37. "The Federal Government and state bureaucrats have made liars and thieves of us all," adds a driver. "Everybody finds ways around the rules." Just to break even, they all feel, they must break the speed limit, drive longer than the regulation ten hours...
...said sourly. Close friends say he is really bored now with his energy job and yearns for his past engagement in foreign affairs or national security. One of them called recently to talk about the price of gas, and all Schlesinger wanted to discuss was the Middle East. After being fired by Ford, Schlesinger became Ronald Reagan's principal foreign policy adviser for the six months before the 1976 convention. Reagan aides called him a couple of times a week, and Schlesinger asked only that his advice not be made public. When Reagan lost, Schlesinger, the honideological pragmatist, moved...
...taken up positions along the road leading to the base, moved forward. As the fighting intensified and the gunfire became almost constant, private cars were commandeered to take the dead and dying to hospitals. One victim was Los Angeles Times Correspondent Joe Alex Morris Jr., 51, a veteran Middle East reporter, who was fatally shot in the chest by a bullet while watching the battle...
...Administration policymaker put it, was that "there's little we can do at this stage." The judgment is undoubtedly correct, but the seeming inability of the U.S. to influence events in Iran could have a serious impact on Washington's relations with other states in the Middle East's crescent of crisis. Ever since Mos cow moved to make Ethiopia its chief client on the Horn of Africa, the Saudis have complained about the waning of U.S. influence in the area. Says a State Department analyst: "The Saudis are taking a hard look now at their relations...
...bankers than outspokenly bigoted whites, although it is too soon to see whether these middle class blacks, riding in on a wave of affirmative action hirings, are more than tokens. They are certainly not representative of the blacks who are clustered in small homes and housing projects in East Winston. There are conservative whites in wealthier sections of the city, and on nearby small farms but, from what I could see, they are more responsive to Howard K. Jarvis and Proposition 13 than to David Duke and the revival of white supremacy...