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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentrated on reports in the press that he had pushed the Administration to take in the Shah. He said his involvement began at the Administration's urging last January to help find a residence in the U.S. for the Shah, who was then under heavy pressure at home to leave Iran. Kissinger said he asked David Rockefeller to join in the search for a U.S. home, but Rockefeller was reluctant, not wanting to jeopardize his bank's relations with any of the contending factions in Iran. So Kissinger turned to Nelson Rockefeller, his old friend and mentor. Just...
...addition to serving in the state senate, Daley, 37, is a committeeman from the Eleventh Ward, bastion of Irish political power and his father's impregnable home base. Daley ducked controversy until Byrne's behavior aroused his combative instincts. He first challenged the mayor in September, when he fought to abolish a sales tax on food and drugs. The revenue was needed for a tax-and-transportation package that Byrne had worked out with Republican Governor James Thompson. Daley failed, but won the backing of labor and the minorities and shook up city hall...
...only institution seemingly left undamaged by the Khmer Rouge is the Antiquities Museum, with its collection of precious artifacts, the Chamcar Mon Palace, which Heng Samrin uses as headquarters, and the graceful Samarki (Solidarity) Hotel, formerly the Phnom, temporary home of teams from CARE, OXFAM and UNESCO. The unused swimming pool is filled with dirty water, prompting speculation that it has not been changed since the days of Lon Nol. It was never changed then either. The hotel bar, the only one functioning in town, can occasionally come up with a bottle of "33" beer imported from Viet...
...First came Angola, then Congo Brazzaville, then Ethiopia, and afterward the Sahara. Step by step. If they get the Sahara, the Russians will have a window on the Atlantic, as they have always wanted, and the key to the Mediterranean. The American Sixth Fleet will have to sail back home and leave these seas to the Russian fleets...
Sylvia Porter's New Money Book for the 80's. This syndicated columnist's 5-lb. doorstopper sells for a hefty $24.95, and anyone with the stamina to lug it home probably will not need any other money guide. Written for a reader who seems to know absolutely nothing about personal finance, Porter's 1,305 pages-completely updated and revised since the publication of her bestselling Money Book in 1975 -cover budgeting, energy saving, career planning, investing, dressing well for less and even dying thriftily. (She recommends preplanning the funeral and discussing costs in advance...