Word: means
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reply: "We are now trying through diplomacy to get the Soviets to eliminate the combat nature of this unit. I don't know yet whether we will succeed. If we do not succeed, we will take appropriate action to change the status quo." What did he mean by appropriate action? Replied Carter: "How to deal with this successfully is not an easy task. But we'll do the best we can." Carter also went out of his way to say that the Soviets were lying about the nature of the troops, an accusation he had made earlier...
...France had supported the Bokassa regime for 13 years and given it up to $100 million a year in aid. Giscard periodically flew off to hunt big game with the dictator and publicly hailed him as "my relative." Scoffed Socialist Leader François Mitterrand: "What do they mean, no bloodshed? Blood was flowing for years, and it was known in Paris. This comic emperor owed his power only to the complacency of French officials...
...rather than six to nine months, as previously forecast. The economy will shrink 3% during the decline rather than just 1% to 2%. Meanwhile, inflation will remain near 10%. Not until next summer will expansion resume, and even then it will be rather weak. Scarce and expensive energy will mean that growth throughout the 1980s will be sluggish. Says Democrat Walter Heller, who was President John Kennedy's chief economic adviser and now counsels brother Teddy: "The bad news bear is up the path. The recession has only just begun to bite...
...dark days before Arledge showed what sports could do for ratings, CBS was able to buy the Olympics for only $550,000-.24% of what ABC paid last week. In 1968 ABC was still able to get the contests for $4.5 million. By 1976 the numbers started to mean something, and ABC paid $25 million...
...Peking. On the afternoon of May 10, Dobrynin came to the Map Room of the White House. Out of the blue, he asked whether the President had as yet decided on receiving Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev, who was in Washington on a visit. The request could only mean that the Soviet leaders had decided to fall in with our approach of business as usual. Trying to match the Ambassador's studied casualness, I allowed that I probably would be able to arrange a meeting in the Oval Office...