Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founding, Jimmy Carter last year appointed a 34-member presidential commission on the Holocaust to develop a memorial in the U.S. to the 6 million victims of the Nazis' "final solution." Last week, as a first step in that effort, the commission toured the sites in Eastern Europe where the campaign of extermination of Jews took place in a search for historical material that could be included in American archives on the Holocaust...
Cambridge, a crowded city of 100,000, is more than a bureaucratic support system for the Square. It is a true Eastern city: ethnic, overdeveloped, and, in some places, tired...
...Because we would immediately be accused of provocative conduct involving a high risk of war. If we started engaging in the sort of activities in Eastern Europe that the Soviets have engaged in in Africa, first it would lead to bloody repression, and second we would be accused of fomenting the risk...
...Among Eastern bloc teams, the Soviet Union showed its usual depth and set two women's world records. No new sports monolith rose from obscurity in the way East Germany did in 1972. But a tiny star may have been born. Natalia Shaposhnikova, 18, an 84-lb. Soviet gymnast, captured both the all-round competition and the fancy of onlookers; "Natasha" may well become the Olga Korbut...
Such misses undermine one of Chandler's goals: to make the rest of the country take California, and the Times, seriously. The Eastern press ignored a frontpage Times story on June 29 revealing that former HEW Secretary Joseph Califano had been reprimanded by Vice President Mondale at the request of Carter. A month later Califano's departure came as too much of a surprise to much of Washington. "Had the story got East Coast play," says Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson, "it would undoubtedly have had more impact." Chandler's growing presence in the Greater...