Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee Chairman Frank Church, who had helped trigger the crisis, introduced a mild resolution that he had worked out in advance with the White House. He proposed that before SALT can be approved, "the President shall affirm that. . . Soviet military forces in Cuba are not engaged in a combat role and will not become a threat to any country in the Caribbean or elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere." Thus the burden of proof is put on the Administration, not the Soviet Union. The White House interpretation is that the brigade can remain in Cuba as long as it does...
Asked whether the high visibility of his wife Rosalynn might not be hurting his own image as a strong leader, Carter spiritedly defended her "very strong role" in public life and her political campaigning. Needling reporters a bit, he claimed that Rosalynn had not notably stepped up her public appearances from a year ago, but "the difference is that now the press is paying attention to where my wife goes and what she says...
...minimum goal is to have enough delegates to play a role in drafting the Democratic platform," says Campaign Manager Thomas Quinn. A minimum role may be all Brown can play. Since August, he has been able to raise only $250, 000. Brown forces had hoped that Kennedy would stay out of the race long enough for their man to get some "fence-sitting" money. Strapped for funds, Brown has had to delay formally declaring his candidacy. Otherwise he will lose local television exposure; as long as he is a noncandidate, stations can interview him without being forced to supply equal...
...popularize contemporary science--is beyond reproach. Yet, like a hard-sell broker, his execution is chronically faulty. In this collection of 25 essays he spreads before the reader a whole gamut of the most tasty scientific ideas, concepts, and predictions, ranging from the prospect of extraterrestial life to the role of gestation in shaping world religion. But he skips frenetically from one to the next, milking only the most sensational aspects and indulging freely in irresponsible speculation. Our aggravation is heightened by his persistent editorial voice in the background, applauding the genius of this, the limitless potential of that...
...transparent reality." Children year for security above all and so "it never occurred to me that my father lied." Duke was not the only one to lead a life of deception. Perhaps Wolff can forgive his father more easily than most because he is uncomfortably cognizant of his guilty role in the game. At the time he vaguely perceived the travesty but chose to ignore it: "Maybe I didn't care. I was safe...