Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vice President Walter Mondale, once a liberal ally of Kennedy's in the Senate, heightened the Carter Administration's criticism of Kennedy and declared that the Senator has yet to give "an issue-based reason for seeking the presidency." Said Mondale: "The real danger is that it [the nomination battle] will be so bitter, so poisonous to the Democratic Party that no Democrat...
...help arm the Thais against a Vietnamese incursion, but Washington seems virtually helpless to influence the apparently inexorable course of events that is engulfing the Cambodian people. One reason is that the war being waged inside the country is ultimately a reflection of the deep-rooted Sino-Soviet conflict. Another is that Hanoi perceives all humanitarian efforts by the world to feed the starving Cambodians as "interference" in the affairs of the Phnom-Penh government. In spite of growing Western pressure, many diplomatic observers believe that Phnom-Penh, under Hanoi's direction, will continue to obstruct any large-scale relief...
...Republic has good reason to help: so far this year, armed bandits assumed to be I.R.A. gunmen have made 188 raids on banks, post offices and payroll offices in the South, making off with more than $3 million...
...networks, in a decision that must delight sitcom fans everywhere, have refused. Stated reason: it is too early for TV politicking...
...REASON ESTIMATES are so uncertain is that the government has permitted the oil bureaucracies to guard their knowledge closely and has no independent sources of information. The government has often respected estimates of reserves on public lands as the confidential "proprietary information" of the leasing companies. A free and open debate in the American tradition will not be possible on energy issues unless citizems receive accurate information...