Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monitor telephone conversations. The practice was common in the Nixon and Ford administrations (New York Times Columnist William Safire dubbed the transcripts "the dead-key scrolls"). Carter liked Vance's order so much that he extended it to the White House; other Cabinet members are expected to follow suit...
Carter's first week has already produced more than symbols-a quick succession of actions and ideas. How sound and successful will these prove to be, along with the many more to follow? That, underneath the relaxed atmosphere, is the central, even passionate preoccupation of the new Washington...
...editorial put it rather heavily, "forlorn-a baffled and beleaguered public figure." No more Amy press conferences, Jimmy ruled. Says Mary Hoyt: "For a while, she needs to get her feet on the ground and be treated like any other nine-year-old." As long as she does not follow Quentin Roosevelt's example, her privacy should be relatively safe. Arriving late one day for class, the story goes, Quentin disrupted his fellow students' work by singing and wildly waving his arms. For his misbehavior, school officials sent him home -where the White House butler opened the door...
...member of yet another extremist group, the ultra-rightist Apostolic Anti-Communist Alliance of Spain, better known as "the Triple A," boastfully admitted carrying out the murders of the Communist lawyers. If Oriol and Villaescusa were executed by their captors, he warned, a "night of the long knives" would follow...
...took place while Vice President Mondale was in Europe, one Western diplomat declared: "It is a big push by the Carter-Mondale-Vance team. They are coming on like gang-busters." At week's end the betting was that former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford would be named to follow up the historic Makarios-Denktas opening. It could not hurt that (like Walter Mondale) Clifford has 13 letters in his name...