Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week's House debate was a classic donnybrook, not just between Democrats and Republicans but also between free-spending liberals and hard-fisted conservatives, between Congressmen who want to cut military spending in favor of social welfare and those who want the exact opposite. Serving as a referee of sorts was Giaimo, 58, whose job was to ensure that no one could force through an amendment greatly changing the overall figures worked out by the Democratic leadership...
During King Faisal's reign, Fahd appeared to favor life abroad ? particularly in France ? to the austerities of Riyadh. He damaged his prestige somewhat in 1974 by spending five months in Europe, even staying there during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Faisal never scolded him but in public was often heard to ask, "Where is our brother Fahd?" Since Faisal's death in 1975, Fahd has had little time to go anywhere for personal pleasure...
...supplying Arafat's Fatah with some $40 million a year in aid, he is strengthening Arafat against George Habash's more radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Two years ago, Fahd was close to reaching an agreement with Arafat under which Fatah would renounce terrorism in favor of a negotiated peace, a deal that collapsed following Sadat's trip to Jerusalem last November. But Fahd's support for Arafat did not waver. When the Israelis invaded southern Lebanon this spring, the first shipment of arms to reach the P.L.O. guerrillas came from Saudi Arabia...
...families poses problems. Robert, a student at the London School of Economics, recalls the "white rage" he felt when he was a Harvard undergraduate and a lecturer described J.F.K. as "macho, a Harvard jocko type." But overall, he concedes that being a Kennedy means "the balance is in my favor." As for David, who is living with his wife Julie near her father's complex at San Clemente and writing a biography of his grandfather, he says that something of Ike must have rubbed off on him. "I don't feel pressured as intensely anywhere else...
...Composers. His political stature crumbled in 1948, however, when together with Composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev he was condemned by the par ty's Central Committee for works that "smelled strongly of the spirit of bourgeois music of Europe and America." Khachaturian apologized publicly and regained Soviet favor firmly enough to visit Washington, D.C., in 1968, conducting his own work and using as his encore the brassy Sabre Dance (from his ballet Gayane), a three-minute piece that once topped the U.S. pop charts...