Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strengthening U.S. ties with Spain was the next item on the Ford-Kissinger itinerary. After more meetings with European leaders (among them Giscard and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson) and a second day of NATO sessions, the President and Kissinger flew to Madrid. Ford and Franco rode through the streets of Madrid, then Ford lunched with Premier Carlos Arias Navarro and Foreign Minister Pedro Cortina Mauri. Among other things, they discussed the pending negotiations for the U.S.'s continued use of four military bases in Spain. In exchange for renewing the agreement, which expires in September, Spain wants some...
...international Protestant leader has added a new item to the crowded agenda for ecumenical discussion between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Writing in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, the Rev. Lukas Vischer, top staff theologian at the Geneva-based World Council of Churches, criticizes the political status of Vatican City, the 108.7-acre enclave in Rome where Roman Catholicism is headquartered...
...soldier as a morally lobotomized professional is a familiar 20th century item. Indeed, pride in professionalism has too often become the true refuge of the scoundrel. Yet Buchheim skillfully dodges these issues by casting his book as documentary, fly-on-the-wall fiction. Its amount of factual authenticity about the 220-ft. submarine and its innards is mesmerizing. Technical data about pressure hulls, diesel engines, electric motors, torpedoes and underwater navigation form a web of fascinating distraction. The incessant diving, ogling of manometers and Papenberg gauges, and the flooding and blowing of ballast tanks run like a litany throughout...
...cardiac-pacemaker units that are prone to premature failure or that cause too high pulse rates. On a lower order of urgency, the FDA last month announced the recall of 1,600 dozen "Brownie tote brushes," which are toothbrushes made to be used exclusively by Brownies. The item's handle bears the official insignia of this younger order of Girl Scouts but has a tendency to snap...
...trouble light" distributed mainly by Pennsylvania-based Action Industries. The device, when held a certain way, could electrocute a user, and one already had done so. Action Industries hired a public relations firm to mount a nationwide campaign publicizing the dangers and the recall of the item and offering a full refund. But only 15% of the 145,000 or so lights that had been sold to consumers were returned. The rest either were thrown out or are still...