Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recommended Moynihan for the ambassadorship to India as well as the U.N. job. Moynihan's successor, said Kissinger, would continue the same policy of confronting America's critics, though in a more restrained way. "There are no two Pat Moynihans in America," Kissinger remarked with apparent relief. The U.N. job has been offered to William Scranton, former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, though he turned it down once before. Cracked a top State Department aide: "We're not going to give another Democrat a platform to run for the Senate." Other possibilities being mentioned for the post...
...Mundo, the Spanish Daily newspaper in Cambridge, created the Guatemala Relief Fund. A spokesman for El Mundo said yesterday that the fund has been "very successful," filling four warehouses with food and medicine within the last week, and added that he is "very happy" with the support received from both the Spanish and English speaking communities in Cambridge...
...defies belief that the developing nations, like the developed nations, would view with anything but relief, however disguised, a break in the petroleum price structure that followed a successful military intervention on the Persian Gulf...developed and underdeveloped would deplore the action--through in considerably varying degree--while accepting with alacrity the benefits flowin from...
Among the new crime dramas, CITY OF ANGELS (NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.), is a stylish period private-eye piece. Movies have been doing this sort of thing a lot lately, but on television the show comes as a relief from such doggedly contemporary cop shows as THE BLUE KNIGHT (CBS, Wednesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) and JIGSAW JOHN (NBC, Monday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.), which feature veteran character men (George Kennedy and Jack Warden respectively) in veteran plots. Physically, Kennedy has a beefy Tightness for his part that adds some realism to the preternatural goodness with which TV cops are currently...
...second half should provide comic relief (eight games, including Brown, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia) and in all probability, a final record of something like 13-13, which could produce a third-place Ivy finish and a final grade of "B." Nothing spectacular, but certainly better than the Ivy basement and a mid-term rating of "C+," which is how the cagers rate today...