Word: haven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress reluctant to endorse his planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea and authorize U.S. participation in loans to Cuba, Indochina and several African nations. Said one senior State Department official: "I'm very worried about this congressional problem. These recent ones we were supposed to win. We haven't even come to the tough ones...
...rebuff awakened some poignant memories in Israel. Many ships carrying Jewish refugees from the Nazi Holocaust vainly sought entry at ports in the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Caribbean. "We have learned from the history of the Jewish boats which wandered the seven seas looking for a haven and which were turned away," declared Menachem Begin last week. His first act as Israel's new Premier was to offer asylum and opportunities for resettlement to the 66 Vietnamese. Taiwan then allowed the group to land and go to Sung Shan International Airport for a flight to Israel...
...majority of these refugees want to find a haven in the U.S. Their chances, however, are slight. The current U.S. program for fugitives from Indochina is confined to people who have fled by boat, and allows for the entry of 300 people a month for the next three months. After that the number will be reduced to 100. But to qualify for entry at all, refugees must have close relatives who are U.S. citizens or be in a "high risk" category of people who held ranking positions in the Saigon regime, or who collaborated closely with U.S. military or Government...
...been lobbying the House for seven years and I haven't seen the business community this organized before," says John Motley, congressional representative of the 500,000-member National Federation of Independent Business. With smoothly coordinated pressure, business lobbyists have managed to win exemptions from congressional committees on taxes on oil and gas use, and to defeat organized labor's bid to pass a common situs picketing bill that would have allowed a single union to shut down a construction site. Now the lobbyists are on the verge of their biggest victory: sidetracking the proposed Agency for Consumer...
...authors of I Do, I Do might have done better to use some lines from the first sketch to sum up their play, instead of the hackneyed "life and love" lines. Innocent Agnes tells her husband she has never seen a naked man, and he responds, "You haven't missed much." The smightould be said about the play. I Do, I Do just doesn...