Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON--Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said Thursday that Sen. George McGovern's proposal to slash defense spending by $30 billion "would signal to the world a drastic decline in America's will and ability to contribute to international stability...
What did that mean? That he meant to signal McGovern that he was available for second spot? If so, Kennedy might simply have called the South Dakotan or sent word through countless available intermediaries. That his own thinking on the entire subject remains ambivalent and imprecise? Perhaps. But presumably, if Kennedy would run for Vice President in order to ensure a Democratic victory in November, he would also run for President on the same grounds. Kennedy did not clarify matters when he said: "I would not exclude all possibilities...
Reconciliation is in the air, like the life-giving rains that signal the start of the wet season. The main street of Juba (pop. 130,000, swelled by refugees), a potholed red-dirt track, has been renamed "Unity Avenue." Overhead, banners in Arabic and English proclaim...
...oriented foreign policy have notably decreased Sato's ability to determine his successor. Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, whom Sato had groomed as the heir apparent, cut short a trip to Seoul scheduled for this week in order to be on hand for Sato's announcement. It will signal what promises to be a struggle for the succession among Fukuda and three rivals: Trade Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a construction millionaire who is the main threat to Fukuda's hopes, and two former Foreign Ministers, Masayoshi Ohira and Takeo Miki...
...first terrorist threat to jets was skyjacking, which is being countered in several sophisticated ways. They include body searches and hand-baggage checks by magnetometers that can signal the presence of metal and alert security men to weapons. Such techniques are not totally effective; last week a skyjacker demanding $500,000 took over a Western Airlines plane en route from Los Angeles to Seattle. Another armed skyjacker, asking for $200,000 in cash, charged aboard a parked United Air Lines jet in Reno...