Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broad hints that he is available to run, the Senator has so far refrained from openly challenging the President and thus risking a bloody party brawl. He would prefer to see Carter pushed out of the race by pressure from the party and the dismal evidence of the polls. Late last week the President was hit with the most staggering poll news to date: an Associated Press-NBC News survey indicated that only 19% of the Americans polled thought Carter was doing an excellent or good job. That was the lowest approval rating for any President since such polls began...
...Soviet force as a brigade, but officials who received that information attached little importance to it. Last spring, worried about Cuban influence in Nicaragua and the Caribbean, Zbigniew Brzezinski's National Security Council asked U.S. intelligence agencies to re-evaluate the Soviet role in Cuba. As late as mid-July, Defense Secretary Harold Brown assured Senator Frank Church of the Foreign Relations Committee that this Soviet role had not changed. In August, however, after a U.S. camera satellite photographed a Russian brigade on maneuvers with armored equipment near Havana, the U.S. concluded that a Soviet brigade was in Cuba...
...62nd birthday, Marcos defiantly declared that he had no intention of lifting the martial law imposed in 1972. This decision, though not unexpected, came as a blow to both opposition leaders and Western diplomats, who have been privately urging the President to restore democratic rule before it is too late. It also did not augur well for observances of the seventh anniversary of martial law in many areas of the Philippines this week...
...forced to spend far fewer hours in his office than any previous Israeli Premier. For Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, 18-hour days were normal. By contrast, Begin usually arrives at 8:30 in the morning and leaves between 11:30 and noon. He often returns in late afternoon for another hour or so, but since his stroke he has done this less frequently. Aides say that he works at home, but Begin has seldom seen any Israeli official, politician or even family friends at his Jerusalem house since the stroke...
Venda is the third member of that "constellation" of black states envisioned by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd as the keystone to the edifice of apartheid. Enacted into law in 1959, the homelands plan calls for the establishment of ten purportedly independent black states divided along tribal lines and scattered across South Africa. When complete, the scheme would crowd all of the blacks, who make up more than 80% of the South African population, onto a mere 15% of the land. The rest of the country, including most of its mineral wealth and all of its industrial regions, would...