Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troublesome options they might choose to deal with both threats. They came to no sweeping decision. But by the time they emerged from the woods to face the harsh political realities of the capital, Carter had decided to lay out a new energy policy for the nation this Thursday. Late last week Carter also announced that his Administration would step up monitoring of prices and he would use "all his legal authority" to ride hard on future price increases...
...Peking late last week, Chairman Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) announced that the Chinese withdrawal had been completed. Hanoi, however, contended that Chinese troops still occupied sections of one Vietnamese border province. This point was supported by diplomats in the region who felt Peking wanted to maintain control of what had been "disputed territory" along the 735-mile frontier...
...pilot's wings after eight months' training at Reese Air Force Base near Lubbock, Texas, and had come to show them off to his father and fellow flyer. Alas for Reza, time may now hang heavy for him too. The wings came too late for the youth who had expected to command the Iranian armed forces and some day the country...
...charged with conspiring to authorize illegal break-ins to track down members of the radical Weather Underground; former CIA Director Richard Helms and a pair of ITT officials were charged with lying to a Senate subcommittee in 1973 about plotting to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens. But in late 1977 Helms was allowed to plead no contest to watered-down charges that he misled the Senate, and this winter the Justice Department simply dropped charges against the ITT officials. Now it appears that the FBI case is also in danger of aborting. Why? National security. Lawyers for the accused...
Unfortunately, once he was persuaded to broadcast over radio, Kahn was also persuaded to give the Met to Paley's archrival, the older, larger, and more prestigious NBC. CBS was to remain the underdog for nearly two more decades, until, in the late '40s, CBS began the "Paley raids," luring away NBC's biggest stars, including Jack Benny and Amos 'n' Andy...