Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe." This warning, voiced by Cuban President Fidel Castro just ten weeks before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, has long fed a theory that the Cuban leader was behind the killing of the President. Indeed, even Lyndon Johnson used to tell intimates that he blamed Cubans for Kennedy's death. Last week, the Castro connection was the chief topic of testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations from an all-star cast that included, remarkably, Castro, ex-CIA Director Richard Helms, former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach...
Nonetheless, there are enough uncertainties to make any forecast subject to serious error. Democrat Arthur Okun, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Lyndon Johnson, is concerned that the Federal Reserve may yet push interest rates high enough and squeeze hard enough on the U.S. money supply to bring about a recession. In the absence of any effective anti-inflation program from the Carter Administration, says Okun, "the Fed really has only two buttons in front of it. One says, 'Validate 7½% inflation' [by pouring out enough money to permit prices to go on rising at that...
...halfbacks Kathy Batter, Gia Johnson and Sarah Fischer, up from center fullback, are some of the best athletes on the team and need only to learn to co-ordinate their play with that of the fullbacks to weld a goal-tight shield around Mahon...
...served as ambassador. Last December he flew back to Rome to retrieve the documents. After returning to Washington, he drove home with them to Winston-Salem and simply had not got around to unloading the trunk. His intention, he said, was to give the papers to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, after he had finished annotating them...
...junior varsity squad also downed Northeastern (29-34), giving the Crimson a double victory. Freshman Peter Johnson and John Sneath, along with junior Dan Rebuzzi...