Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michel Trudeau logically. After all, Pierre Trudeau had just told sons Michel, Justin and Sacha and the rest of Canada something that had been anticipated since Conservative Prime Minister Joe Clark's government lost a vote of confidence two weeks ago. With a general election scheduled for Feb. 18, three-time P.M. Trudeau was ending his brief political retirement to lead the Liberals once again. Before the campaign gets into gear, there is another urgent party matter: Christmas birthdays for both of Michel's brothers. Justin will be eight, Sacha...
Within ten hours Clark had kept his word, Parliament had been dissolved, and a new national election was called for Feb. 18. Canada was faced with the swiftest demise of any government in nearly a century, and the country faced an electoral struggle for which no one was really prepared. On one side: the youthful, untested Clark Conservatives, who have suffered a nosedive in popularity in little more than half a year in office. On the other side: the experienced Trudeau Liberal Party, unaccustomed to opposition after more than a decade in power, grown listless and, now, even leaderless. Just...
...Administration-designed aid package soon going before the House. There is not much time to resolve the differences. Congress aims to recess by Dec. 21, and probably will not convene before Jan. 22. Chrysler has warned that if it does not get aid by St. Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, bankruptcy will strike...
...citizen (a fact that he denied steadfastly during his seven months as Foreign Minister), the U.S. had hoped that Yazdi would prove useful in rebuilding Washington's ties with Tehran. Yazdi had secured the release of American diplomats during the earlier, and much briefer (two hours), embassy siege last Feb. 14. In September Yazdi and Vance had talked at the U.N. for four hours about military supplies for Iran and the future of U.S.-Iranian relations. Vance came away from that meeting thinking that the Bazargan government was slowly acquiring more authority over the rabble-rousing mullahs who surround Khomeini...
Three times, between Dec, 16, 1811, and Feb. 7, 1812, such scenes were repeated as major earthquakes jolted the region around the small Mississippi River town of New Madrid, Mo. Because the region was sparsely inhabited, few lives were lost. Still, the shocks were so powerful that they caused church bells to ring as far away as Charleston, S.C., stopped pendulum clocks in Washington, D.C., and shook buildings in New York City. No seismographs existed at the time, but detailed descriptions by survivors indicate that the intensities of the three quakes would have ranged between...