Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President also must reckon with a new force on Capitol Hill: Idaho Democrat Frank Church, who will take over as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has vowed to make the committee a significant force in U.S. foreign policy. Says Church: "I don't want the committee to be second-guessing the President. But on the other hand, I don't want it to be subordinate to the Administration...
...second wife's mother, who lived with the couple, remembers often complaining of a foul smell in the house, "like dead rats." Gacy's ex-wife admits, "I think now, if there were murders, some must have taken place when I was in that house." Martin Zielinski, a friend, recalls being puzzled when Gacy once told him, "I do a lot of rotten, horrible things, but I do a lot of good things...
...with them. While the situation in Iran deteriorated, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his top aides were preoccupied with the Middle East peace talks and SALT negotiations with the Soviet Union. Filling the policy vacuum was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was almost unopposed in his recommendation that the U.S. must support the Shah without reservation. Day-to-day operations, according to State Department sources, were left in the hands of low-level officials. Complained a knowledgeable observer last week: "There has been nobody but a desk officer in the department paying any attention at all to the bloody thing. Brzezinski...
Said Ecevit last week: "Whatever our differences of opinion, everyone must do his best to call out to his own followers for peace." At week's end, Ecevit's countrymen seemed to be heeding that plea His government was not expected to topple-if only because no one else seemed to be willing to take on Ecevit's painful responsibilities...
...population that has grown from 12 million to 18 million since he took over. In foreign affairs, Boumedienne lost some prestige in the Arab world by backing and providing bases for the Polisario rebels, who seek to wrest the former Spanish Sahara from neighboring Morocco and Mauritania. His successor must decide whether to continue that fight...