Word: ol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ol' Hap," as most folks called Chandler then, and practically everyone does still, gave up a perfectly comfortable Senate seat because he imagined the work might be more restful than politics. "As Governor of Kentucky," says Chandler, 85, "I signed 36 death warrants. Two of them were hanged for rape in the courthouse yard." But as he was soon to learn-and as Ford Frick, Spike Eckert and Bowie Kuhn all discovered in turn-the commissioner's job is not unlike presiding at such an occasion while being the object of the exercise at the same time...
...King Hussein or do anything to encourage Hussein to enter into negotiations with Israel over the future of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. If, on the other hand, Arafat were removed from the scene, the P.L.O. might lose its claim to being the sole legitimate representative ol the Palestinian people. That, in turn, might free Hussein and the West Bank municipal leaders to pursue the 1982 Reagan peace plan, which has called for a future link between the occupied territories and Jordan. Israel opposes such a solution to the Palestinian problem and is therefore against negotiations toward...
...previous Saturday, at Santiago's Circulo Español, the city's largest club, an overflow crowd of 1,500 gathered, ostensibly to honor Christian Democratic Party President Gabriel Valdés. A former Foreign Minister under President Eduardo Frei, Valdés, 63, used the occasion to unveil a new coalition of Chile's five main parties, excluding the Communists. Calling itself the Democratic Alliance, the group demanded that Pinochet give way to a provisional government leading to elections within 18 months...
...disappointing. Second, Western Europe had become an attractive target because it could be intimidated by a rapid Soviet military buildup, especially of SS-20 intermediate-range missiles, of which Moscow now has 351 deployed. Intimidation was made all the easier by the arrival of a so-called successor generation ol young West Europeans ignorant of immediate post-World War II history, thus uncertain of U.S. policy and fatalistic about Soviet power. Third, the Soviets are grappling in Eastern Europe with perhaps their most intractable problem, the growth of nationalism and dissent. Said François-Poncet: "If the Soviets could...
...government, however, is willing to give up those revenues to halt what it has come to call "immoral games ol chance." Under the proposed law, anyone caught owning or using a slot machine could be fined up to $4,100 and sentenced to six months in jail. Barring a major wave of protests, France's machines a sous seem headed for the back room once again...