Word: mets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brian and I met frequently afterward, always without publicity. In early 1971 Brian suggested that I meet with a group of his friends to discuss the war and the problems of our society. I invited them to the White House. The friends turned out to be a nun and two laymen who had been named as unindicted coconspirators in an alleged plot to kidnap me. When the press later learned of the meeting from my visitors, I was admonished by the Secret Service and the Attorney General...
...met with Brian and his friends on a Saturday morning in March 1971 in the White House Situation Room, and we struggled to fashion at least a temporary bridge across the mutual incomprehension that was rending our society. Gently, they expressed their deep and passionate opposition to the war; but they had no idea how to end it. My problem was to translate inchoate ideas-however deeply held-into policy. Ours was the perpetually inconclusive dialogue between statesmen and prophets, between those who operate in time and through attainable stages and those who are concerned with truth and the eternal...
...jobs from U.S. workers. On the other hand, the millions of Mexican immigrants add to the nation's fast-growing and generally Democratic population of Hispanics; they will probably displace blacks as the nation's largest minority by the next decade. In New York last week, López Portillo met with a coalition of Spanish-speaking leaders, who urged him to put pressure on Carter for a relaxation of U.S. immigration laws. If Carter does not, the leaders implied, he might lose the solid Hispanic support that contributed to his victory...
...Egyptian and Israeli representatives meanwhile met in Alexandria for a sixth-and noisy-round of talks on Palestinian autonomy. The opening session turned stormy when Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Khalil pounded his fist on the table and barked that "good faith" had been "shattered" by the Israeli decision to allow its citizens to purchase land on the West Bank. Israeli Minister of the Interior Yosef Burg sarcastically retorted that the Egyptians were "using a big gun to shoot a small bird...
Last week the snail darter met defeat. Congress had already voted to allow exceptions to the Endangered Species Act because of "irresolvable conflict," and Republican Howard H. Baker of Tennessee moved to apply this gambit to the snail darter. When that failed, Baker resolutely pushed again, and Tellico was tacked onto a $10.8 billion energy and water appropriations bill. President Carter, on record as opposing the dam, faced a bitter choice. The bill reportedly contained no other pork barrels that he had fought, and it kept alive his Water Resources Council, an independent body that judges future projects. Moreover...