Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state correctly: "U.S. forces landed there in 1898 to help the Cubans overthrow their Spanish rulers, and stayed for good." But then you say: "The U.S. controls Guantanamo Bay ... under a perpetual lease negotiated with the Republic of Cuba in 1903." No one, most Americans will agree, "negotiates" perpetual leases allowing foreign military bases on lome territory. Cubans were robbed of their revolution and denied self-determination, sadly, by the largest "democracy" at the time...
...Walk in with four or five people and say, 'Are you going to do what the people want or do we have to tip over your desk?' " While Von Stahl explains how to bring treason charges against a Communist-loving official, Courtney Smith, a representative of the conservative Liberty Lobby, sums up the mood of the participants. "They're really mad. I've heard people here actually talk about killing these so-called politicians. They figure they're traitors. Have not the Russians said they will bury us? And yet our Congressmen and Senators vote...
...Democratic struggle is forcing Republicans to reassess the free-for-all in their own party. Many G.O.P. leaders fear that a Carter victory would make him much harder to beat in November. Says G.O.P. National Chairman William Brock: "He would have successfully met the question of his leadership and taken some of the wind out of issues that we would like to have first crack at." But the prospect of a Kennedy victory poses even more imponderables for Republicans. If the Democratic tide runs toward Kennedy, would the G.O.P. want to field its aging front runner, 68-year-old Ronald...
...Kennedy says he has thought it all out. He has been through so much already, he feels, that he does not see how this could be worse. "Maybe I'm wrong," he says. "Maybe it will be a lot worse than I think." Friends say that Kennedy is fatalistic about his life and about the special danger that he faces in running for President. For that reason, his family and closest friends refused their counsel when he asked for advice about getting into the race. To an outsider, one of them would admit only, "It's really scary." Says Kennedy...
...other issues, Kennedy has blurred his positions or moved them toward the right. In January he endorsed Carter's proposed overall fiscal 1980 spending of $531 billion, with a deficit of about $29 billion. Kennedy urged, however, that $4 billion be cut from the defense budget?he did not say exactly what he would trim?and spent on domestic needs, such as health. But by the time the Senate voted on the budget, Kennedy had changed his mind about reducing Pentagon spending. Far from cutting the defense budget, he voted to increase it to $141.2 billion, $18.5 billion more than...