Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the Cambridge Convention candidates say they hope Vellucci wins tomorrow for personal and practical reasons, but as one said, "Everyone's probably voting for him as ninth choice." He has a strong challenge in his own neighborhood from Lawrence Frisoli, a conservative with a strong family political organization backing...
...Humphrey and his wife Muriel in Minneapolis. Joshed Humphrey: "I waited, because I am a frugal man, until I could get a free ride. For at least 20 years I have been trying to get on Air Force One. Just the thought of it, the vibrations, gave me new hope and new strength...
However, Washington is opposed to economic sanctions-a far more drastic step that it believes would be counterproductive. The Administration's goal is an arms embargo subject to renewal by the Security Council every six months. The hope is that such a resolution would persuade Pretoria to ease the strictures of apartheid and repression. Young gained the support of the other Western members of the Security Council (Britain, France, Canada and West Germany) for a carefully worded resolution that would impose the arms sanctions and also brand South Africa "a threat to international peace and security." With the help...
Those of you who don't want Brown to win a share of anything might hope instead that Dartmouth waits until next week to do its necessary losing and knocks Brown out of the race today...
These features would be worthwhile only under the presumption that the Soviets would do nothing to counteract a new threat to their land-based missiles, that the U.S. was interested in launching a first-strike against the Soviet Union, or that the Americans had given up all hope of negotiated arms ceilings. But these assumptions are not, or should not be, true. The facts show that the MX would be more costly than useful, would be dangerously destabilizing, and would present problems of verification that would severely hamper future efforts at arms control...