Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrators at the cathedral soon received a brutal reply. Columns of heavily armed national police appeared in the square facing its main entrance. A captain blew his whistle and fired a rifle into the air. While protesters scrambled for cover, the police cut loose with automatic rifles, firing volley after volley into the crowd. When the shooting stopped, bodies were lying everywhere on the steps of the cathedral. For six hours, the police refused to let Red Cross workers tend the wounded. By the time they were admitted into the cathedral, 23 persons were dead or dying...
...White House pointedly made only a mild response to Soviet harassment of two Moscow correspondents for U.S. magazines, Robin Knight of U.S. News & World Report and Peter Hann of Business Week. Said a White House aide: "I can just picture some dumb flunky doing something counter to the main thrust of Soviet policy. If we can screw up that way, why can't they...
...main theme was that in a world that is becoming ever more diverse and complex, the U.S. cannot achieve its diplomatic goals simply by asserting its military or economic power. Rather, it must seek ways to adapt to and guide revolutionary changes that are probably unstoppable. Said Vance: "There can be no going back to a time when we thought there could be American solutions to every problem." The U.S., he counseled, "must accept the fact that other societies will manage change and build new institutions in patterns that may be different from our own [an obvious allusion to Iran...
Despite its scale, the Black Tuna roundup lacked the melodrama of many narcotics crackdowns. The main action took place in hushed financial offices and on a silent computer terminal screen, as a task force of some 30 DEA and FBI agents, aided by two undercover informants, traced the enormous sums of money generated by the drug running. Dubbed Operation Banco, the investigation scrutinized thousands of financial transactions, hunting for suspicious deposits and investments and then following the funds as they were laundered and transferred to Florida banks...
Pfeiffer answers to Silverman, but it is widely assumed that she has a clear line to RCA Chairman Griffiths. Her main areas of concentration are government relations, legal affairs and employee relations, and she has also been what Silverman calls a "third eye," or a disinterested critic, in prime-time programming. Naturally enough, Silverman has devoted almost all his attention to programming. Says an NBC executive: "Fred is like an eager little boy with a highly developed feeling and sense of how to fix programs, and he couldn't care less about all this monkey business about corporate skill...