Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the rhetoric has soared in Congress, the Administration has struggled to keep the out-of-control issue in perspective. Said a senior White House aide: "We're not trying to make it into a confrontation for the sake of confrontation. We're not trying to shove it up Moscow's nose." He stressed that "you don't want to treat this as another Cuban missile crisis," which it certainly is not. There was not even a hot-line contact between Carter and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Although the Administration to some extent triggered the uproar by briefing...
...keep track of what is going on in Cuba, the U.S. employs both the most advanced and the most ancient technology: ELINT (electronic intelligence) and HUMINT (human eyes and ears). Apparently there was not enough of either in the case of the belatedly discovered Soviet brigade...
...Blackbird), which flies more than three times as fast as sound at above 85,000 ft., makes occasional photo-reconnaissance runs over Cuba. The old standby, the, U2, also goes on photographic and electronic "ferreting" missions, but it remains almost 20 miles high and well outside Cuban airspace to keep from being shot down...
Volcker has already permitted the prime interest rate to reach a historic high - 12¾%, and he has assured Congress that he plans to keep up the pressure...
...that $1 a gallon for heating oil will be "a political disaster" in New England. Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Kansas get mighty cold too. Schlesinger also has a hunch that our chief supplier of imported oil, Saudi Arabia, will have something to say within these months on whether it will keep its production at the current rate or begin to cut back. And, Sears wonders, "is the U.S. going to be a presence in this world...