Word: m
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel M. Kohler...
...very big. The co-owners of a Chicago saloon sold two dozen at $5.50 one afternoon last week. Some of the messages would have disgraced a privy wall, but one of the most popular is squeaky clean: a picture of Captain America emblazoned with the message: I'M COMING, IRAN...
Some vindicated prophets are already riding high. Among them are Washington's Henry M. Jackson, who has fought a lonely battle for more U.S. power year upon year, Georgia's Sam Nunn, who saw a crisis coming and used the 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...
Captain Larry Kinsey announced to the passengers: "Please act like adults. If this insurrection doesn't stop, I'm gonna put this plane down." The uproar continued. Kinsey, good as his word, landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Some disgusted passengers canceled out, and the rest boarded a new plane with a new crew and arrived in New York about three hours late. Huffed Passenger Emory Kristof: "I haven't seen a display like that since kindergarten...
...post-election press conference, Haughey tried to sound like both peacemaker and patriot. "I'm tinged with green, all right," he conceded, but added firmly: "I condemn the provisional I.R.A. and all their activities." Yet his stance on Ulster's future was clearly hawkish: re-unification "is my primary political priority." On cooperating with the British, Haughey said that Ireland's own forces are "totally capable of dealing with security matters." He dismissed as "inadequate" Britain's latest proposals to end the Ulster violence, including an all-party conference of Catholic and Protestant leaders. Small wonder...