Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact of Washington's China stroke and argues that the Geneva talks have been temporarily stalled by a familiar Soviet bargaining tactic. Said Richard Perle, an aide to Senator Henry Jackson and a stern but widely respected critic of SALT: "The Soviets bargain especially hard at the eleventh hour. They see us as pliant, and they have learned to expect that stonewalling will win further concessions from us." A senior Administration official conceded: "They sensed that we were eager for SALT. And so they introduced additional issues. It's a typical Soviet bargaining tactic...
PERSIAN GULF. Poor intelligence and diplomatic shortsightedness have trapped the U.S. in an increasingly difficult position in Iran. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi could fall any hour, yet Carter has found no course but to continue supporting him, at least publicly. The fall of the Shah, which many now predict, would change the equations of power, from Egypt and Ethiopia all the way east to Pakistan. The helplessness of the U.S. to shape events in Iran is beginning to sap Saudi Arabia's confidence in the ability of the U.S. to protect the region from Soviet penetration, a hazard that...
...Plaines, Ill., to pick up her 15-year-old son Robert. Just as Mrs. Piest and her son were about to leave the store, he said, "Mom, wait a minute, I've got to talk to a contractor about a summer job that will pay me $5 an hour." That was the last Mrs. Piest...
...have been in a desperate attempt to gain international support against such a Vietnamese assault that Cambodia last week embarked on its oddest scheme yet to end its self-imposed isolation: a twice-weekly six-hour tourist excursion from Bangkok to the exquisite Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat, 140 miles northwest of Phnom-Penh. The round trip, arranged in Bangkok by former Thai Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan, costs an unproletarian $225. On the inaugural flight last week was TIME's Hong Kong correspondent, David DeVoss, who reported that "at first security was so tight, visitors spent most...
...social pretensions. There are eight squash courts, a small gymnasium, banquet facilities, meeting rooms, a library, a restaurant, several rooms for overnight accommodations, as well as Harvard Hall and the Grill Room, two large rooms filled with comfortable leather chairs where one can sip cocktails at any hour or just take a snooze in the wood-paneled serenity...