Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nunn echoes the message. The world has moved, and Nunn believes the U.S. lacks "a SALT philosophy" in a tune when events seem to be slipping out of our grasp. Republican Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. sat on one of his Maryland hillsides as long ago as April and heard Pakistan's brilliant ambassador, Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, prophesy chaos in Iran. The ambassador has gone to Moscow, after telling his friends that his government believes the Soviets to be the dominant world force now because the U.S. cannot be counted on to lead...
...involves the impact normalization may have on U.S.-Soviet relations. Although Teng repeatedly used the U.S. as a forum to invoke the specter of Soviet "hegemony," Administration experts believe that Moscow was not too seriously upset. Teng apparently took care to say nothing that the Russians had not already heard from him. Said one State Department analyst: "Teng had it figured just about right; he knew what would play and what wouldn't." As a result, Moscow only mildly rebuked the U.S. Charged Pravda (inaccurately): "No one [in America] objected to the malicious anti-Soviet insinuations." Soviet Premier Aleksei...
...songs of John Denver may be heard along the Great Wall. When the country-and-western singer performed at the Kennedy Center gala for Teng Hsiao-p'ing, he won a new fan and the Vice Premier's autograph...
Eleven jurors heard enough to convict. But not the twelfth. According to other jurors, retired Navy Cook William Cash, 63, held out for Flood's acquittal during the almost twelve hours of deliberation. The result: a mistrial-and a federal investigation into the reasons for it. Last week, TIME has learned, federal agents received information linking Cash with individuals described as "associates of Flood." Cash denies everything, but a strange tale has begun to unfold...
Last week Cash maintained he had made up a joke that he scarcely recalls, and that he had never even heard of Flood before the trial. But federal officials were not so sure. Cash's information is similar in some details to a story Flood told Elko years ago. How Cash could have got involved is a mystery. Along with the rest of the jury, he was supposed to be completely isolated from outside contact during the trial. Federal marshals accompanied jurors on trips to pick up clean clothes from home, and even the windows of the jurors...