Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arabs also deeply resent the fact that the Israelis chose to give military support to Khomeini's Iran. The Israelis respond that the aid effort was based on their traditional enmity toward Iraq. They claim their aid was halted several months ago, long before the Iranian invasion of Iraq began. Other sources say that some Israeli aid, including the training of Iranian military personnel in the use of American arms, is continuing...
...Washington quickly noted, last week's message was not nearly as strong as the Soviet Union's support for the Arabs in 1973 during the October War. At that time, Moscow airlifted military supplies to Syria and mobilized its forces, prompting President Richard Nixon to respond by putting U.S. troops on worldwide nuclear alert...
...Administration was not seriously concerned about the Soviet reaction. "It didn't bother us one bit," said an Administration official. Brezhnev's letter, delivered by Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to the State Department, was interpreted as a mild warning that Moscow might respond to any deployment of U.S. troops in Lebanon by sending a battalion of its own to Syria; both of these actions would violate an unwritten understanding between the superpowers, dating from 1973, not to send any forces into the Middle East. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said that Reagan had received the Soviet leader...
...early as 6 a.m. CBS will counter in October with news programs stretching from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m., thereby keeping the network on the air and available for live coverage of a crisis 24 hours a day, a genuine first. Says NBC News President Reuven Frank: "Networks must respond to the needs of people. If changing life-styles mean people are ready to watch at different times, we will do programs at different times...
Congress encouraged companies to respond by granting anonymity to all participants in the study, which is scheduled to be completed by fall. With confidentiality assured, several firms disclosed that, on the basis of the test results, they have from time to time advised employees to seek work elsewhere. Moreover, only eight companies that screened their workers bothered to tell them that the examinations were being done...