Word: marshaller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intermittent and road traffic virtually at a standstill as opponents of the government blocked intersections and pulled people from bicycles on their way to work. Even within government ranks, opposition began to surface. Pakistan's ambassadors to Greece and Spain, both retired military officers, resigned in protest. Air Marshal Abdur Rahim Khan, who had been Ambassador to Spain, warned that Bhutto could provoke "a true civil war." In Washington the State Department stopped a $68,000 shipment of tear gas, which had been widely used by Pakistani police in quelling disorders. Said a spokesman: "It's just...
...bolster his case, Murphy can marshal some figures of his own: some 50 per cent of all Massachusetts drug busts in 1974 were for simple possession and 90 per cent of all marijuana cases involved possession of one ounce or less. Court costs for marijuana arrests totaled $10-12 million that year, the most recent time period for which statistics are available...
...process that culminated in Plimpton's selection differed from past years, Felicia Marcus '77. Radcliffe First Marshal and a member of the committee said last night...
Still, as Chrysler Corp. Chairman John Riccardo said last week: "Every time he [Carter] starts talking prenotification, we start thinking controls." Businessmen and labor leaders are acutely aware of the President's ability to marshal public opinion and exert psychological pressure. Just after Carter...
...summer of 1972 to do research on the status of Chinese women. She spent six weeks there, speaking to many women leaders, including Teng Ying-ch'ao, the wife of then Premier Chou Enlai, and K'ang K'o-ch'ing, wife of Marshal Chu Teh, China's most renowned military leader...