Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nelson that he had received information "from a highly reliable source that an attempt to murder Mr. Galante will be made at your institution." Nelson slapped Galante into solitary confinement "for his own protection." But Lillo apparently prefers to rely on his own security arrangements, without the feds' help. Contending the plots to kill him were fictitious and that the Government was trying to harass the prisoner, his attorney, Roy Cohn,* has asked a federal judge to release Galante from "the hole...
...rock through a window and then waits patiently to be arrested. In 26 years he has broken at least 44 panes and, as a result, has spent about ten years in jail on misdemeanor charges. Neither psychiatrists nor specialists at a federal alcoholism center have been able to help...
...Stung by a strike that involved 1 million civil servants and government workers, authorities by and large have acted swiftly to satisfy many of the grievances. Government workers were granted wage increases ranging from 25% to more than 100% as well as such fringe benefits as subsidized housing. To help pay for the $1.5 billion settlement, Iran canceled orders for $7 billion worth of military hardware that had been placed with U.S. and European companies. Ironically, many of the workers who had won increases did not get their paychecks last week. Reason: employees in the Finance Ministry were still...
...State Cyrus Vance late last week: "We have now resolved almost all the substantive issues." While in the U.S. on a fund-raising tour, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin said that "real progress" had been made and that he hoped to sign the treaty "quite soon, with God's help." Even customarily cautious Egyptian diplomats agreed with their Israeli counterparts that "the point of no return" had been reached on the three-week-old peace talks...
...referendums on March 1 on local assemblies for these areas-the first step toward devolution, or limited home rule. Opposed by Thatcher's Tories, who have 281 seats, and the Liberal Party (13), Callaghan's Labor minority of 312 can now stay in power only with the help of smaller parties. Callaghan needs the votes, or at least the abstentions, of the nationalists this week in the vote of confidence that traditionally follows the Queen's speech after a debate on its content. By winning it, Callaghan should be able to stay in office until he decides...