Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospect of handling down an unprecedented indictment of a former CIA director on serious perjury charges daunted the Justice Department from the very beginning in 1973 when Helms lied about CIA involvement in plots to secretly deliver funds in 1970 to the opponents of the late Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens. Once on the witness stand, there was no telling how many intelligence secrets a desperate Richard Helms might cough up to save his own neck. Conversely, Justice officials and, in particular, the Carter administration acknowledged the need to hold Helms accountable for his transgressions while under oath; the post...
...week strike that has closed Yale's dining halls and idled its service and maintenance workers will present a sticky situation for fans at this Saturday's Harvard-Yale football contest--the prospect of crossing picket lines to gain access to "The Game...
...said Willem de Klerk, editor of Die Transvaler, the country's influential Afrikaans-language newspaper. And that was the reaction of many white South Africans, as they faced the all but inevitable prospect that the United Nations this week would adopt a mandatory arms embargo against their country for the first time. The expected U.N. resolution-perhaps the first in a series that could lead to economic sanctions as well-was a direct response to the Pretoria government's latest wave of repression. A week earlier more than 50 black leaders had been placed under detention...
...time at each. Now freshmen don't ever have to leave the comfort of the Union. When they do, they go in convoys with a proctor riding shotgun. To pay for keeping the Union open weekends, all but four Houses have abandoned hot breakfasts. Greatly upset at the prospect of going to 9 a.m. classes without waffles, upperclassmen rose up in unsuccessful protest. Their subsequent resentment was as frequently directed against freshmen as toward Dean...
...THIS IS NOT TO SAY that Carter will take no action on urban problems. White House discussion are underway on the prospect of a federal "Urbank" to help attract businesses into aging cities by promising low-interest loans. The President is clearly interested in ways of using the all-important private sector to help the cities. And it is still early. Carter has flooded Congress with other legislation; proposals on city problems had best not be sent up to Capitol Hill quite...