Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McGovern is now focusing more on economic issues. He is trying to organize the primary states down to the grass roots;' his campus organizations (more than 300) are the best in the field. But he is anathema to organized labor, has a tendency to shoot from the hip (his prompt labeling of the President's wage-price freeze as "economic madness," for example), and suffers from an image as "the Wally Cox of the campaign...
...nationalism now sweeping the continent and to the expropriation of U.S. companies. The U.S. avoided a confrontation with Peru over I.P.C. and is now working out an agreement. Recently, however, U.S. policy has taken a harder line toward any country that expropriates American property and fails to promise "prompt and adequate compensation." The chief spokesman for that point of view is Treasury Secretary John Connally. He had the U.S. pointedly abstain from voting for World Bank loans to Bolivia and Guyana, and had the Export-Import Bank refuse a $21 million credit to Chile for the purchase of three Boeing...
...agreement would clear the last remaining hurdle for their cherished European Security Conference, aimed at nailing down the status quo in Eastern Europe and getting international recognition for East Germany. It would accelerate the opening of NATO-Warsaw Pact talks on troop reductions in Central Europe. Finally, it would prompt Brandt to seek Bundestag ratification of the nonaggression treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, which have been delayed pending a Berlin agreement. Whether such a settlement happens this week or later, the talks have certainly come a long way since the days when Nikita Khrushchev declared that West Berlin was like...
...Communist offer brought some prompt expressions of interest on Capitol Hill. "These proposals mark a different point of departure," said Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, sponsor of the end-the-war amendment. On the Republican side, Senator Hugh Scott agreed: "Now we can start negotiating seriously...
...down friends, relatives and classmates of the Albany victims. Albany newspapers have asked readers who may have associated with Hodgkin's disease patients to get in touch with the state health department. As a result, hundreds of calls were received last week. While the disease is not curable, prompt treatment can often check its course. Meanwhile, a student at a New York medical school has written to health authorities to report a cluster of three cases involving two of his classmates and one of their friends. Dr. Greenwald and his associates plan to conduct a study of the outbreak...