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Word: east (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone was won over to the beauties of the 50th state, however. The Dunster House weekly calendar listed a Long Island table [to which Westchesterites would also be invited] for the next night, and in the wings were vague rumblings of an all-out East Coast scum night--complete with baggy pants, down jackets and attache cases. They talked of acting out a Bronx street mugging...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Dunster Goes West, Young Man | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...Everyone knows there are faculty with contractual relationships with the CIA for purposes of research," Roy M. Hofheinz Jr., professor of Government and director of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, said yesterday...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: CIA Links May Hurt Research Abroad | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

...debate is lively in the Independence Room East on the second floor. Jon Shifren, president of the World Affairs Club and Long Island's Wheatley School, is a high school senior and a model U.N. veteran. His committee has been good to his country -- the People's Republic of China -- thus far. "It's been completely dominated by the Third World," he says. How did his school earn the honor of representing the PRC? "Our former president," Shiffen says, "knew Emil Yappert, but maybe we were just lucky." He waves his card in the air -- a signal that he wants...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Holding Down the Fort | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

...consensus of those meetings was more constructive than the assignment of blame to any one agency or even to any one Administration: ever since the 1960s, when Britain was withdrawing from east of the Suez and the Shah proclaimed himself the guardian of the Persian Gulf, the U.S.Iranian connection has been a textbook case of what diplomats call "clientitis"-the fallacy of mistaking an ally's interests for one's own. The U.S. failed to see that the Shah was weak simply because it had long been a principle of policy, and therefore an article of faith, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Who Lost Iran? | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Confronted with an urgent need for imported petroleum, the Premier flies off to the Middle East to cement Italy's relations with the oil-producing states. After a four-country tour, he succeeds in fostering several economic deals with Libya and Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Master of Persuasiva | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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