Word: enlistments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cooper, hoping to enlist whites who desire change, vows to fight back, but he foresees a potentially divisive struggle. If it comes to that, he is confident that he will prevail, yet fearful that in the process many whites might leave town. In the end, Cooper predicts, the racial dilemma will dissolve because "the whites who remain are going to learn that blacks won't treat them badly...
...veteran of Middle Eastern wars and intrigues, got the Arab side of the story in Beirut. "I did have some trouble getting into the Beirut headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization, where I had an appointment," reports Bell. "The place was besieged by young Arabs who were trying to enlist in Black September. They finally let me through, though I don't look much like a fedayeen type." Adds Bell: "I'm more the Winston Churchill type, as was testified to by the Persian mob that nearly lynched me during the Mossadegh days, when Mr. Churchill was distinctly...
...week, it was McGovern who seemed to be wavering as he apparently tried to ditch Eagleton without actually informing his running mate directly. They would meet early this week in Washington. But McGovern made no effort to discourage his backers from dump-Eagleton talk, and he tried to enlist the press in getting the word to Eagleton. In stories based on conversations with him but transparently attributed only to "sources close to McGovern," he passed the word that Eagleton should take himself out of contention. Eagleton had damaged the ticket, and he should jump without waiting to be pushed...
...were already in existence; some radio equipment was gathering dust in hospital basements. All that was needed was a way of linking them together. Nor was money a problem. The national highway program, which stresses safety, provided $1.2 million to get things started. Local support proved equally easy to enlist. The state merely set standards for participation in the program (fulltime emergency-room physician, an intensive-care unit, radio communications and a helicopter landing pad); local communities decided which hospitals would be best suited to be trauma centers. Opposition to the plan from local physicians or ambulance operators quickly disappeared...
...black cassock, visited each of the congregations under his jurisdiction, patiently healing the wounds. "Leave your arguments outside the church door," Athenagoras told them. "You will find them there when you come out." At the same time he was such a staunch U.S. patriot that he tried to enlist in the Army on the day after Pearl Harbor. Athenagoras (and Archbishop Michael, who succeeded him after he was elected Ecumenical Patriarch in 1948) joined other Orthodox churchmen in a campaign for public recognition. Most states now recognize Orthodoxy as a "major faith," and Athenagoras' successors as Archbishop...