Word: orbited
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America has too many domestic problems to continue Secretary Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy. If the Secretary is hooked on world travel, he should be "shuttlecrafted" to Skylab. Then he can orbit the world every two hours...
...referring to Italy, had said he would "look with sympathy" on a Communist government in NATO, the Georgian retorted that the statement was "deliberate distortion." But Carter did once urge that the U.S. maintain friendly relations with Communist leaders in Italy to avoid driving them irrevocably into the Soviet orbit. When Ford cited Portugal's escape from Communist rule as a success for U.S. foreign policy, Carter replied, correctly, that the U.S. still "stuck to the Portugal dictatorships much longer" than other democracies had done. Among the other exchanges between the candidates...
...slugging Ted Kennedy at an anti-busing protest rally. There are plenty of clowns at places like Whitey McGrail's and Kelly's Tavern who help make the beers go down more pleasantly. By a series of accidents, the media and voters have launched O'Neil into perpetual orbit. A politician who cannot mobilize support, cultivate influence or avoid social solecisms, he was spawned by the social, political and economic problems that trouble the frightened white urban working class. As Barney Frank explained. "He's one of the prices we have to pay for busing...
...Soviet power and influence, partly in the form of Cuban troops, into the area in strength. Inevitably, Washington became concerned about the region's vulnerability to foreign influence. Kissinger wanted to prevent the whole of southern Africa from falling ? eventually, and almost by default ? into the Soviet orbit; he wanted to head off what appeared to be inevitable race war; and he wanted to create circumstances in which moderate black regimes would have a chance to endure. With these motives in mind, he met John Vorster twice this summer in Europe...
This potentially calamitous defect is now being remedied. The Bern relay station will soon be eliminated. To replace it, the system will rely on straight line-of-sight radio signals sent through communications satellites that the U.S. and the Soviet Union have hurled into orbit. The new switching and linking system should be virtually fail-safe. If diplomacy could be similarly fine-tuned, there would probably be no need for a hot line in the first place...