Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SALT debate to nudge the Government toward more concern, and New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the preachers of the new reality. Jackson's phone has been ringing with callers urging him to get into the presidential race. Sam Nunn looked up at an aide last week and marveled at the sudden interest the media were displaying in the defense budget. For at least an hour a day now, Moynihan fields calls from his intellectual friends across the nation; the subject-the new shape of America. Universities have found in the New Yorker a new Pied...
...balmy morning last week, the yellow bus wheeled out of the U.S. Navy compound in Toa Baja, a San Juan suburb. Bouncing in their seats, the passengers-13 men and five women-dozed or talked quietly as they traveled the familiar route from the Sabana Seca Communications Station to a radio transmitter site four miles away. Nobody paid any attention to a green pickup truck that was following close behind...
...telephone booth. "We are prepared to take this struggle to its ultimate consequences." The murders, they said, were in retaliation for a police ambush that killed two young leftists in July 1978, and for the death of Angel Rodriguez Cristóbal. An activist, Cristóbal was arrested last May with 20 other protesters for trespassing on Vieques Island, which the Navy uses for bombing and shelling practice and amphibious exercises. Last month he was found dead in his cell at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla. His death was ruled a suicide, but pro-independence activists charged...
After the killings, FBI Agent Bernard Perez said: "An open attack is a new thing. It could be an escalation." Officials worriedly recalled the stealing of hundreds of pounds of explosives from a construction site in October 1978 and the looting of weapons from a police armory last spring. One potential flashpoint for more violence: Navy maneuvers that are expected to be held in late January or early February. Anti-Navy protesters are already planning mass demonstrations...
...After last week's attack, American service personnel were advised not to wear their uniforms off post or to get into potentially dangerous situations. Navy personnel are now traveling in small vans that have police-car escorts. Riding shotgun in the vans are Marines that the Pentagon flew to Puerto Rico after the bus ambush...