Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder how much they had to offer Russell Long to get his support," one observer in the White House press room wondered. "Nothing much," suggested another, "except the transfer of the whole Louisiana Territory...
...hundred aged Lebanese civilians and scores of teen-age Palestinian fighters. Smoke rose from the ruins of a building hit by Israeli bombs. Palestinians and Lebanese dug through rubble in search of bodies. The bombardment seemed to have been indiscriminate, both from the air and from ships offshore. Except for one Palestinian antiaircraft gun on the outskirts of town, no military targets had been hit. The port remained undamaged. What had been hit, and hard, was the civilian dwellings. Was this deliberate counterterror on the part of the Israelis? It certainly looked that...
Harvard officials have denied that any "significant" outside contracts have been made, except for "major construction and rennovation jobs which are not traditionally performed by the B&G carpenters...
President Carter's handling of the present strike has been abominable. Sitting tight in the White House for three months, and making no obvious overture to the miners except threatening to cut off their food stamps--the only way many miners made it through one of the harshest winters the coalfields had ever known--Carter stumbled to action only ten days ago. His order of a Taft-Hartley injunction only angered and bewildered the UMWA, leaving many miners muttering John L. Lewis's 1943 offer in a similar situation: "Let them dig coal with bayonets." Tacitly disregarded by the UMWA...
...impact of recent events on the prospect for an overall settlement. If Prime Minister Begin believes withdrawal from Lebanon can be used as a bargaining chip to extract concessions from Washington and Cairo, he could well be in for a surprise. The invasion is likely to do nothing except severely set back negotiations and divert attention from the main issues of a Palestinian homeland and the occupied territories...