Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as Vance heard the news, he rebelled and threatened to resign. That set off a back-room tempest in the Administration. The principals, Vance, Strauss, Jordan and Vice President Walter Mondale gathered that night, at the end of March, in Mondale's living room. Vance insisted that he had already yielded too much to Brzezinski in the past couple of years, as Vance put it, to protect Brzezinski against his own large insecurities. "It's not personal, it's institutional," maintained the Secretary. "It will be a terrible blow for the State Department." Mondale tried...
...bank holdups in five days. New York's bank-robbery rate is up a whopping 27% so far over 1978's tally, and the national figures have jumped 13%. In California, which has some 30% of the nation's bank robberies, a new record was set on Aug. 10 for Los Angeles County: 12 robberies in a single...
...rising for information leading to arrests. Many banks now use the dye pack, a bundle of money that releases red dye and smoke as a signal after the robber leaves the premises. Here and there police forces are deploying special units to fight the epidemic. New York City has set up three task forces of cops, including one that puts plainclothesmen in banks that seem likely to be robbed...
...chief targets of the new measures, however, were the mutinous minority groups and their leftist allies. In another fiery speech, Khomeini said flatly: "If we had set up scaffolds in public squares and strung up these devils at the beginning of the revolution, we would have had none of these troubles." In ordering the army and his own Islamic guards to march to Kurdistan, he warned his military commanders: " You will meet revolutionary action yourselves if you fail to move into Kurdistan within 24 hours...
...again. Already. In the hot sun, long before the winter snows, Columnist Robert Novak of the team of Evans and Novak has been following George Bush around the state, busy making less ("It is doubtful he was seen by more than 100 registered Republican voters") sound like more (". . . could set the foundation for an upset transforming Republican politics...