Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Military Conference. The Syrians, in effect, were demanding an enforcement of the so-called Cairo agreement, a 1969 deal that was supposed to control the movement of Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon. The P.L.O. has ignored the agreement from the beginning by carrying out operations against Israel from Lebanon as it...
To the extent that blue-collar workers vote on the basis of Catholic or ethnic issues, Ford could benefit. In addition, he hopes to capitalize on the slowdown in inflation. But blue-collar voters seem more concerned about unemployment than inflation. Says Mike LaVelle, the Chicago Tribune's blue...
Schweiker lobbied hard among Pennsylvania's 103 delegates and declared that at least 23 would support Reagan. Only ten did-fewer than had been projected before Schweiker was added to the ticket. When his longtime friend and former campaign manager Drew Lewis resisted Schweiker's pleas to switch...
Died. Daniel Gearhart, 34, convicted mercenary from Kensington, Md., who served three days with defeated anti-Communist forces in the Angolan civil war last year. Gearhart, along with three Britons, was executed in Angola, following a "war crimes" trial of 13 white mercenaries, in spite of pleas for the condemned...
He began to shower letters and phone calls on some 100 bureaucrats and politicians, including Congressmen and Senators-with little response. He tried to phone President Ford and Henry Kissinger but never got through. He made four personal pleas to the rebels, including a radio appeal that Radio Ethiopia never...