Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time Helms and L.B.J. had a shouting match outside the Oval Office. Johnson had made up his mind how a certain situation had come about. Helms told him it was not so. Helms would not yield, and though Johnson walked away from that encounter sore, he developed new respect for Helms...
...troops trapped in the besieged city. Because of heavy clouds, South Vietnamese air force planes at first failed to get off preliminary air strikes. Once Saigon did get some A-37 fighter planes into action, the pilots refused to fly below 12,000 ft. out of respect for the Communists' imposing antiaircraft arsenal. That, in turn, made it impossible for government helicopters carrying reinforcements to land within the city. In the end, the South Vietnamese were only able to put two Ranger companies totaling about 200 men into the battle. After two days of close fighting between outnumbered government...
...work routine is still largely similar to that of most secretaries here. She spends a good part of her nine-to-five workday sitting in her office typing for her boss. She adamantly insists she likes being a secretary--"Secretary can be a satisfying job if you can get respect," she says. "Secretaries are so used to menial tasks, doing what they're told, that they don't think. I'd like to see secretary raised to professional status...
...International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations welcomed the guidelines' "urgent condemnation of anti-Semitism and discrimination," but objected to "the suggestion that Judaism look outside its own doctrine and dogmas for fulfillment." It also questioned the compatibility of Christian evangelization with the guidelines' assertion that "dialogue demands respect for the other...
...Vatican Secretariat of State who are known to favor better relations with Arab states. To Jews, it appeared to be a clear step backward from an earlier working draft of guidelines in 1969-leaked at that time to the press but subsequently shelved-which urged Christians to "respect the religious significance of this link between the people and the land." Tanenbaum and other Jewish leaders are scheduled to meet this week in Rome with their Vatican counterparts, and that link between Jews and Israel will doubtless loom large in their conversations...