Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generally accepted, in fact, that the Navy must become a better manager of its multibillion-dollar shipbuilding effort, if for no other reason than that the current mess has seriously hurt the service's case for more vessels. Edward ("Randy") Jayne, of the Office of Management and Budget, bluntly warned some of the Navy's top officers at a recent conference: "If you remember nothing else, please remember this. The present shipbuilding difficulties represent in my view the single most influential reason why President Carter chose not to accelerate Navy ship purchases in the 1979 budget...
Both the jittery mood of Congress and the Administration's recognition that some concession to its feelings was necessary reflected the fact that a lot of lobbying was going on. Except for a few full-page newspaper ads by Jewish organizations, however, much of that activity was characteristically invisible, the spontaneous reaction of many of the 5.8 million Jews in the U.S. "There has been a tremendous outpouring of mail," says one congressional staffer. "But no one has to tell concerned Jews to write to their Congressman. When they see an issue that is dangerous to Israel, they respond...
When his American hosts argued that Israel should adopt a more flexible attitude, Dayan replied that the U.S. must accept the fact that Begin is too committed to the concept of "Eretz Israel" for him ever to accept withdrawal from the West Bank. Nonetheless, said one American diplomat, "Dayan the pragmatist emerged. He told us, in effect, 'Let's not get hung up on 242 or on formulas, let's worry about what happens next.' " American officials took some encouragement from one Dayan admission: Israel now recognizes that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat cannot be expected...
Perhaps the most important argument for selling the planes to the Saudis is that such a transaction would not alter the essential military fact of the Middle East: Israel's overwhelming superiority. If the Israeli lobby in Washington should succeed in quashing the deal, it could be a severe blow to U.S. national interest. The Saudis have made it clear that they would not only be angry and disappointed but would take their business elsewhere. France, for example, would be only too glad to sell them its own latest jet fighters, the Mirages F-1 and 2000, with...
Since "strict discretion is absolutely necessary" if terrorists are to blend in with their surroundings, "every comrade must be decorously dressed and be personally well-kept: clean shaven and hair cut." (In fact, several prominent Brigatisti, including imprisoned Leader Renato Curcio, do sport beards.) Terrorists are admonished "as a matter of principle" to be "reassuring and kind to neighbors and not make noise after hours...