Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration has been arguing that although the Soviet brigade does not threaten the U.S. militarily, it does endanger the nation's security interests. But even while his President was talking tough, Vance was cautioning against overdramatizing the issue. Three weeks before, in the first major Administration statement on the brigade, Vance had said: "We regard this as a very serious problem." But last week he emphasized to a Manhattan luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association that "we have significant interests at stake in our total relationship with the Soviet Union." Thus the matter of the Soviet troops must...
Chicago planned to close virtually its entire Loop, about 80 square blocks, to incoming traffic while the Pope was in town. In the nation's capital, the 7,000 or so tickets issued by the White House for two presidential receptions in John Paul's honor were the most sought after invitations in years...
...Mary Jo Kopechne from his submerged car in July 1969 as well as his failure to seek help? Many reporters thought so. But Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell indignantly denied the connection. Quite correctly, Powell pointed out that Kennedy had raised the leadership issue, suggesting, in effect, that the nation is seeking a stronger person in the White House. Added Powell: "How can you ask an incumbent President who has faced every tough, thankless issue and has a commendable record-not perfect, but pretty damn good-to give up the right to point to the record? That...
...Carter Administration, the presence of this huge number of aliens poses a political dilemma: labor unions, whose support Carter needs for reelection, claim they take 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...
...JUSTIFY SUPPORTING the occupation of Seabrook, it is not enough to catalog the disadvantages of nuclear power. There must also be a better alternative. To meet the nation's future energy demands, as well as New England's--which have actually grown more slowly than expected--we should put our efforts into energy conservation and solar power...