Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found-with some nudging by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Testifying before the Senate committee, Kissinger called the 90-plane allotment for Israel "the very lowest end of the spectrum." In armament discussions between Israel and the Ford Administration, he said, the number of fighters being considered was "several orders of magnitude above this...
...necessary votes; Church insisted that he had promised only to press his colleagues for fair and open-minded consideration of the Administration proposals. At any rate, Church persuaded John Glenn of Ohio to back the sales. On the Republican side, lobbying help came from none other than Gerald Ford, who persuaded Michigan's Robert Griffin to fall into line...
...while ostensibly on a skiing vacation in Europe with his wife, Shadrin had a prearranged meeting with two KGB officers on the steps of a church in Vienna, then vanished. At Ewa's insistence, the U.S. repeatedly asked the Soviets for information about Shadrin's fate. Gerald Ford sent an inquiry to Leonid Brezhnev, who replied vaguely that the KGB had not kidnaped Shadrin. U.S. officials told reporters that Shadrin was probably dead or in a Soviet prison. In response to suggestions of U.S. bungling, some officials even suggested that Shadrin had been a Soviet plant, a triple...
...There is no question," says Alan Greenspan, who was President Ford's chief economic adviser, "that the economy is in a surge. Industrial production for April probably was up a full percentage point." Greenspan predicts a real increase in G.N.P. of 8% to 10% at an annual rate in the second quarter, and a still strong 5% in the third. Nobody on the board seriously disagrees...
...investigators were not surprised that AMC had a problem. In January the agency had recalled 640,000 Ford-made vehicles that used the same Eaton part...