Word: overruning
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DESPITE ITS SELF CONTRADICTIONS, the Columbia protest has enjoyed an undeniable publicity bonanza. Since the blockade began, the Columbia campus has been overrun with reporters. The students 60s-style stand has captured the attention of media organizations ranging New York Times, the Associated Press, the BBC, and Tass, the official Soviet news agency...
...sneaky as a PAC, as enduring as Claude Pepper, as annoying as an overzealous lobbyist, the unelected American cockroach is surely the most resilient resident of Capitol Hill. From the Rotunda to the farthest hearing room, congressional buildings are overrun with the scurrying pests, which seem harder to stamp out than waste, fraud and abuse. Efforts to exterminate them have failed miserably, so Congressman Silvio Conte has declared a war against what he says is a "1 trillion-strong" invasion of the hallowed halls. The irrepressible Massachusetts Republican has launched a "Conte Crush-a- Cockroach Campaign," the slogan of which...
...Navy was not eager to pay the $843 million extra charge, but General Dynamics threatened to halt production of the submarines if the Pentagon refused to absorb the overrun. Company documents reveal that Lewis told Assistant Navy Secretary Edward Hidalgo that "it might well become necessary to close down those operations at Electric Boat relating to the 688 program." Charges Veliotis: "General Dynamics was prepared to hold the nation's vital submarine program hostage in order to squeeze more money out of the Government...
Hidalgo became Secretary of the Navy in 1979 and left the Pentagon when the Carter Administration departed in 1981. Within eleven months he was hired as an outside consultant for General Dynamics. Veliotis says that the company never specifically offered Hidalgo a reward for helping get it a good overrun settlement. But Veliotis contends there was an unspoken understanding that General Dynamics would take care of the Secretary in the future. Responds Hidalgo: "If anyone says that, I would call him a confounded and blasphemous liar...
...rained last week on Green Hill, the last major Khmer resistance stronghold on the Thai-Kampuchean border. All night long, Chin and his 32 guerrilla fighters were pinned down in a trench at the edge of a steep escarpment that the defenders had hoped would protect them against being overrun. But shortly before dawn, Chin's squad received orders to withdraw, and the camp's entire complement of 3,000 guerrilla fighters pulled back into Thailand. Green Hill had fallen to the Vietnamese attackers...