Word: hand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Idaho Democrat Frank Church, who will take over as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has vowed to make the committee a significant force in U.S. foreign policy. Says Church: "I don't want the committee to be second-guessing the President. But on the other hand, I don't want it to be subordinate to the Administration...
...while he quietly wooed the moderates, Sadat continued to give the back of his hand to Arab radicals. Egypt, said he, "will not pay attention to the diatribes and shallow viewpoints of the rejectionists." Sadat knows that the radicals alone cannot make war against Israel; he is also convinced that they cannot help the Palestinians as long as they refuse to enter the negotiations...
...exempt from federal price controls and therefore could be sold locally at a higher price than if it had been bought in another state. As a result, even during the severe gas shortages of recent winters, a few producer states such as Texas and Louisiana had more gas on hand than they knew what to do with. The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates gas within the state, has kept a lid on new production since last January because of insufficient local demand...
...Cambodian government claimed to have captured 84 Soviet-made tanks in the past week, which they say prove the Soviet and Vietnamese influence in the revolt. The insurgents, on the other hand, claim to have captured or killed scores of Chinese military advisors during their attacks on government-controlled cities...
...forces seem to be at work in the club today. On the one hand, the older graduates see the club as a social gathering place, an oasis of old Ivy League gentility in the hubbub of New York. To these members, the Harvard Club is much like a final club in Cambridge, a place to meet their kind of people...