Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Humphrey's grandiose proposal would set a national goal of 3% unemployment for adults, to be reached within four years of enactment. The Government would be ordered to create jobs in public service and launch public works programs to achieve that end. The goal is noble, and drew support from such witnesses as Bishop James Rausch of the U.S. Catholic Conference; Murray Finley, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; and Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson, speaking for the urban poor...
...that Brevard County would get "excellent consideration" as a site for a federal solar-research center. By funny happenstance, too, just before last week's election, the Air Force awarded an Orlando company a $33.6 million contract for missiles, and the Department of Transportation granted $15 million to launch a rapid-transit system for Dade County. In addition, Ford courted the Cuban vote by ordering more immigration officials to Miami to accelerate naturalization proceedings. He wooed conservatives by strongly suggesting to one of their leaders, Jerry Thomas, the party's 1974 gubernatorial candidate, that he would be named...
...case, TIME has learned that the State Department last week decided to launch a full-scale medical investigation of the thousands of U.S. diplomats and their families who served in Moscow since the early 1960s. In the wake of the microwave disclosures, former embassy employees and their families have recalled suffering strange ailments during their tenure in Moscow, ranging from eye tics and headaches to heavy menstrual flows. Some point out that former Ambassadors to Moscow Charles Bohlen and Llewellyn Thompson both died of cancer, within the last two years one other Moscow diplomat died of cancer, and five women...
Britain's greatest fear is that Smith will launch a pre-emptive strike against Mozambique, which has no air force. Rhodesia's Canberras, Hunters and Vampire attack aircraft would have little trouble taking out guerrilla camps and breaking up concentrations of ground forces. The danger is that Moscow might reply by approving the use of Cuban-flown MIG 17s and 21s against the Rhodesian heartland. That would mean the end of all lingering hopes for a peaceful solution of Rhodesia's future...
...through equal representation in Parliament, which now contains 50 whites and 16 blacks. The fear is that if the talks fail, Nkomo, in the words of one observer, will become "irrelevant." Then the militant black nationalists, who broke away from Nkomo's group last August, would almost certainly launch an all-out guerrilla invasion by the self-styled Zimbabwe Liberation Army. That army now has an estimated 10,000 guerrillas in Mozambique alone...