Word: granting
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...Iran. When those installations were ransacked by supporters of Ayatullah Khomeini, the U.S. had to fall back on four electronic ground stations in Turkey - and a request for permission to collect additional data by U-2 missions along the Turkish-Soviet border. The Turkish government has said it will grant permission only if the Kremlin does not object. Brezhnev made no promises but was encouraging. He knows that ratification of SALT II could turn on the Senate's confidence about verification...
...have unquestionably played an unhelpful part in U.S. policy. An influential circle of a dozen or so legislators of Greek heritage rammed through the 1974 embargo, which was lifted only last year. The same "Greek lobby" was instrumental last week in blocking House approval of a $50 million military grant to Turkey. Since 1974 two leaders of the lobby have acquired more power-but no more sympathy for the Turkish position. Congressman John Brademas of Indiana is now the No. 3 man in the House Democratic leadership. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland has moved from a congressional seat...
...around Southeast Asia. Malaysia (with about 76,000 Vietnamese refugees) announced that it would force all refugees back into international waters and shoot anyone attempting to land. Indonesia (whose refugee population jumped by 7,000, to 31,500, in less than a week) said it would no longer grant even temporary asylum to the refugees. Hong Kong, which had been swamped in recent weeks not only by refugee "boat people" from Viet Nam but also by illegal immigrants from China, dispatched its Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, to Britain and the U.S. to discuss the problem...
Current power is being studied under a DOE grant by Aerovironment Inc., a small firm in Pasadena, Calif. It is considering sinking large electricity-producing turbines off the Florida coast, with rotating "windmills" turned by the Gulf Stream and connected to generators that pump power to shore by submarine cable...
...roaming up and down Independence and Constitution Avenues in search of a permanent roosting place. By the end of the month, Congress may send a law establishing the Department of Education to the White House. But Carter must do more than sign the bill, take his bows and verbally grant education a new lease on life. If the legislation's proponents think the battle to establish the department has been long and hard, they had better remember that their fight has only just begun