Word: posting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just weeks ago, for example, a 40-page memorandum landed on Carter's desk detailing the problems involved in the Post Office's getting into the business of transmitting electronic data. Top aides did not think it was necessary for the President himself to study the arguments, but as one of them explains: "There was no way to shortstop it, no place for it to go except to the President." Carter himself was part of the problem. He enjoyed minutiae, from details of shale rock formations to the precise boundaries of West Bank settlements. Says another aide: "Carter...
...from the hills above Managua. It hovered over a heavily fortified complex in the heart of the war-torn capital and flicked on its landing lights. For the last time, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle gazed down upon the bunker that had been his combination home and command post for the past 20 months. Then the chopper alighted at Las Mercedes Airport, where Somoza's private jet was standing by. Moments later, the wan and pasty-faced dictator, drooping with fatigue, was on his way into exile...
...That step allowed them to immediately abandon their commands and seek refuge in the U.S. or elsewhere in Latin America. As Somoza's officers planned their getaways, Nicaraguan Congressmen who had been confined in Managua's Intercontinental Hotel grew increasingly panicky. Finally, they were called into a post-midnight session. They unanimously accepted Somoza's resignation and conferred the blue-and-white sash, symbolic of the presidency, on his longtime flunky, former Health Minister Francisco Urcuyo Maliaño. As soon as the session adjourned, most of the lawmakers lit out for the airport...
Riding on the support of her own centrist Liberals, plus a loose coalition of Christian Democrats, British Conservatives and French Gaullists, France's Veil won her post on the second ballot, with 192 out of the 377 valid votes cast. Two leftist candidates, Italian Socialist Mario Zagari and Italian Communist Giorgio Amendola, went down to defeat with 138 and 47 votes respectively. Veil's victory thus demonstrated the effective dominance of the center-right parties in the Parliament, whose members were picked in direct elections throughout the nine European Community countries last month...
Veil has made a strong public impact ever since President Valery Giscard d'Estaing picked her from a senior judicial post to serve in his Cabinet in 1974. A mother of three, she strenuously campaigned against tobacco and notorious French alcoholism, liberalized rules governing contraception, and successfully led a long and bitter legislative campaign for legal abortion. The new "Euro-President" quickly gave the Parliament an early sample of the no-nonsense grit behind her gentle smile. When Protestant Ulster Unionist the Rev. Ian Paisley heckled Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch for delivering part of his speech in Irish...