Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stand I in exchange for a 60-day delay of two-thirds of the tariff increase-the $1 per bbl. that took effect at the end of last : week and the $1 scheduled for April 1. Ford would be left, however, with the $1 boost that took effect on Feb. 1. He promised to decide by early this week whether to accept a compromise or press on with the showdown over the veto...
...most accounts, Richard Nixon has been leading a reclusive life since leaving office, rarely venturing outside the walls of his Casa Pacifica compound. But in recent weeks his existence has opened up a bit. On Feb. 9, when the six-month transition period designed to prepare ex-Presidents for private life officially ended, Nixon seemed in reasonably good spirits, almost jaunty, at a farewell party for departing aides. That left the staff still on his federally allotted payroll at five, including Secretary Rose Mary Woods. Also on hand are four volunteer associates, like former Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, who perform...
...morning of Feb. 6, Giovanni Spadolini walked into a committee room in Rome's Chamber of Deputies and got ready to debate. Three months earlier, Aldo Moro's center-left government had given him the newly invented and resonant-sounding portfolio of Ministro dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali (Minister of Cultural and Environmental Resources). Since then, Spadolini had been striving to get more money and protection for Italy's impoverished and vulnerable museums. Two new bills were ready to be argued. "Just as the debate was beginning," Spadolini recalls, "a colleague in the chamber came...
...response to Prof. Michael Walzer's reply (Feb. 26) to my letter of Feb. 21, let me say first of all that I am certainly not opposed to personal discourse with him on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and I suspect he knows where my office is located. But the issues involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict cry out for serious public discussion in the Crimson (the Harvard community's most widely read organ) and I wrote my letter precisely with this in mind...
...editorial "Learning the Wrong Lessons" by the new editors of The New Republic (Feb. 1), not only was it essentially a defense of Prof. Robert Tucker's irresponsible proposal to invade the Arab oilfields but a thoroughly cheap defense at that--especially for intellectuals who insist on calling themselves "liberals", and alas even "socialists...