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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union maintains 31 divisions in top combat readiness, consisting of 400,000 men and 9,000 tanks, plus a veritable army of secret agents. Eastern Europe's police forces, not to mention its economies, are also under Moscow control...
...excluded from the process." But he gave little clue as to just how he would include Congress and the public. In his defense, Ford recounted the 60 or so speeches he and Kissinger have made on foreign policy, and Kissinger's 80 appearances before congressional committees. He also mentioned his disclosure to the Senate of every document covering the 1975 Sinai agreement. But he did not mention that he had initially refused to turn over the material, and did so only after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee insisted...
...boycott. To avoid antagonizing the Arabs or angering the U.S. businessmen involved, the Administration has been notably reluctant to combat the boycott. Ford boasted in the debate that the tax reform bill he signed recently includes tax penalties for firms that observe the boycott, but he did not mention that the Administration had tried to persuade Congress to drop that provision from the bill. The day after the debate Ford went back on the promise to release the list and lamely ordered publication only of the names of firms that go along with the boycott "in the future...
...Mary Hartman from the Fernwood Receiving Hospital's mental ward. Who could blame her? As a pig-tailed Fernwood housewife on television's most talked-about series last season, Mary's doorstep had been darkened by adultery, impotence, venereal disease and an ax murderer, not to mention waxy buildup on her kitchen floor. No wonder Mary went bonkers on the show's closing episode. So what is next for poor Mary and her loopy friends in the new season that premiered last week?* It does not sound therapeutic...
Knocking about the Australian outback around the middle of the past century was an Irishman, more than half-crazed, called Daniel Morgan. Paroled from prison after six years of "hard labor"-not to mention sodomization, humiliation and deprivation-Morgan roamed the country stealing horses and robbing their riders. His only companion was an aboriginal boy named Billy, who taught him how to use a boomerang and live off the land like a bushman. Eventually Morgan killed a couple of policemen, and a fat ? 1,000 price was fixed on his head. By the time he ran up against...