Word: making
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real show was inside, however, and what a show it was. Audience and TV viewers alike were treated to a full-scale display of all the elements that can make opera truly grand: a masterpiece of the repertory-Verdi's Otello-opulent staging, brilliant conducting by Met Music Director James Levine, and a cast of top singers giving a blazing performance...
...reason for all the military pregnancy is that women who make the service a career are determined to live as normal a life as possible. For many, that means having children. Some who intend to quit the service after a brief stint are attracted by the benefits offered to those who bear children as well as arms: free medical care and a liberal leave policy...
Standard operating procedure in all branches of the service is to keep pregnant women at their jobs as long as possible. Then they are transferred to light duty or put on sick leave. In practice, different commanders make different decisions. An Army colonel, just back from Korea, said pregnant soldiers "were making the forced marches with all their equipment." Yet some officers try to get such women out of the way early. Says Rear Admiral James R. Hogg, of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations: "The bottom line is, we'll get her transferred before she becomes...
...second installment of TIME's excerpts from White House Years, Henry Kissinger writes of the war that divided the U.S. at home and threatened to make a shambles of its policies abroad. He tells for the first time how during secret negotiations in Paris in April 1970-before the U.S. invaded the North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia-he proposed that Cambodia's neutrality be guaranteed and that an international conference on the subject be convened. North Viet Nam's representative, Le Duc Tho, bluntly spurned the proposal, claiming that Hanoi expected to hold sway over...
...meeting ended at 12:20 p.m. on May 8. Nixon said he would make a final decision at 2 p.m., and asked Kissinger to bring the necessary papers to his Executive Office Building hideaway at that hour for signing...