Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iran, similarly, the Khomeini revolution continued to lurch along unpredictable paths, with the U.S. acting largely as a bystander. Leftist gunmen kidnaped and then freed a wounded U.S. Marine embassy guard. American civilians continued their airborne exodus. Sure of its case, the U.S. did respond more firmly than it had earlier to the killing of U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs. It slashed aid to Afghanistan from $15 million to $3 million, sparing only humanitarian projects, and it angrily rejected Moscow's claim that Soviet advisers were not involved in the killing. But here, too, Carter conveyed an impression...
...differences to themselves, another conflict occurred last week when State Department Soviet Expert Marshall Shulman predicted that the Soviet Union would not intervene to punish China. Said Shulman: "If [the war] remains essentially at roughly the same scale, it seems to us not likely that the Soviet Union will respond on the Sino-Soviet border." Others close to the President are less sanguine, worrying that the longer the Chinese-Vietnamese conflict goes on, the more likely some Russian action becomes...
Jimmy Carter pondered the barbs from Mexico's President José López Portillo a few days ago, and momentarily wondered if he should respond. Then in a fraction of a second he decided that the better part of wisdom and the greater part of courage for the leader of a superpower was to sit calmly and quietly. In Mexico there was some grudging appreciation. In America, beset by too many inner doubts, there was plenty of criticism...
...scene he found appalling and he spoke out. Yet even in that tragic tangle there is the dilemma of courage. The White House does not believe that the Soviets deliberately intended to harm the ambassador. It was simply their brutish sense of how strong-and, yes, courageous-men respond in a crisis. Crush the offenders and all those...
...SASC's letter requests that Bok respond within a week and schedule the debate for a date prior to spring vacation...