Word: hope
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...only other Watergate veteran still behind bars is G. Gordon Liddy, who led the break-in with Hunt and was jailed in 1973. Still refusing to talk about the burglary, he faces four more years at the federal prison in Danbury, Conn., before he can hope for parole...
...rights in Uganda, the U.S. should ask the U.N. to look into "the crimes which the U.S. has committed in various parts of the world." But he closed by asking Carter "to pass my greetings to all Americans, both white and black," and added a typically comic touch: "I hope to visit you at the White House in the near future...
...Amin seriously hope to contain Uganda's 7 million Christians indefinitely with 800,000 Moslems? At the moment, his policy appears to be one of selective genocide, and no one is in a position to check his ruthless misuse of power...
...When South Africa withdrew its police and helicopter pilots from our country over the past two years, it indicated that it believed this was in the best interests of both our countries. We would hope South Africa would continue to treat us simply as a normal friend would treat us, and would not turn against us as the rest of our friends in the world have done. We would hope, for example, they would never lend themselves to the despicable game of trying to apply sanctions against us and persecute us because we try to live a normal life...
Despite its flaws, the Ullman revisions are virtually certain to be passed by the House when it votes on Carter's full package this week. The Administration's best hope is to rally support for the President's original proposals in the Senate, where Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, the chairman of the Finance Committee, is regarded to be more favorably disposed than Ullman toward Carter's business provisions. Then the White House hopes that a House-Senate conference committee will toss out Ullman's plan and restore Carter's original concept...