Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in New York City and Washington to try and narrow their differences in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, a prospective agreement that faces formidable opposition in the Senate. Next month Carter will begin an uphill fight in Congress to lift the arms embargo against NATO ally Turkey, which was imposed in 1974 following Turkey's invasion of Cyprus. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 8 to 4 to retain the embargo, but Administration supporters will raise the issue again on the Senate floor...
They see a chance to seriously challenge Jimmy Carter in 1980. But Ronald Reagan sits astride the G.O.P. apparatus. "Can you imagine what it is going to be like?" sighed one of the young bucks recently. "Our candidate will be 70 years old with orange hair and a face lift." The most popular contender in the party is Gerald Ford. "There he was," reported the same Republican, "in his white leisure suit beside the pool in Palm Springs. How do you lead this nation from the fairways of Thunderbird...
...chairman's activism was clearly seen in the board's decisions to allow the federal funds rate to rise twice in little more than a week, as well as to lift the discount rate to 7% last week. Interest rates will climb as a result, making Miller a handy target for White House staffers and politicians. Stuart Eizenstat, President Carter's chief domestic affairs adviser, complained that the Reserve's moves on interest rates "aren't ones we have asked for and aren't ones we have applauded." Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, the Senate...
...gets a lift from its high level of repeat travelers. British travel agents voted SIA "airline of the year" in 1977, and a survey of 500 agents in the Asian-Pacific region placed it first in the area. The line does not belong to the International Air Transport Association cartel, so it can give all sorts of free extras to passengers. In both first class and economy, they get free champagne and drinks even before takeoff; gifts like pens or complete leather toilet sets are distributed on every flight to first-class passengers. SIA is spending $30 million to build...
...sensible plane package-the proposal to sell advanced fighters to the Saudis and Egyptians as well as to the Israelis-is running into furious opposition, marshaled by powerful and relentless Israeli political pressure. In the relatively minor but troublesome tribal quarrel over Cyprus, Carter seems sound in wanting to lift the arms embargo on Turkey. But Congress is mesmerized by the tiny Greek lobby. Carter certainly mishandled the neutron bomb affair, not least by exaggerating its importance. But the German complaints are pretty outrageous, given Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's political cowardice in wanting the weapon without taking responsibility...