Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrote that his old boss-and good friend still-has proved too "heavyhanded" in many of his major moves, including the Nixon pardon, the Mayaguez affair and the shakeup. He has acted, terHorst wrote, as though he feared that "anything less than full force might be mistaken as a sign of weakness or timidity. When the man stamps, he stamps hard...
Concerned that the Kremlin might interpret Schlesinger's firing as a sign the U.S. would make new concessions for the sake of a new SALT agreement, Kissinger went out of his way to blame the Soviet Union for the current deadlock in the talks. "We are still expecting some sort of reasoned response to our last proposal," said the Secretary. "We are prepared to look for an honorable compromise. But it is up to the Soviet Union to be also prepared to make a compromise." Asked if he himself planned to last out the Ford Administration, he said, "Well...
Despite the fact that farmworkers are now registering their opinions, the UFW has not yet called off the boycotts. Chavez supporters argue that pressure is needed to force growers to sign contracts where the UFW has won. But such indiscriminate boycotts mean a loss of jobs and income for the Teamster workers who prefer to continue working, believing they can bargain successfully without such "support." This is also unfair to those workers who have voted for no union. Since the UFW represents only a small minority of the workers in the boycotted crops, this objection is especially important...
...President. At Belmont the men with the sideburns made packets and sent them to Washington. According to Frank Gotch, "we've sent four million of these petitions out, but if you divide by 537, that's not so many people. But have you ever tried to sign your name and address 537 times? Man, writer's cramp...
...Iberian peninsula on an indefinite fact-finding mission. Before the small data-gathering entourage got underway, all of the armed services decided to get in on the act, and when Generalissimo Franco saw that about 100 American military men had come to Spain he thought they had come to sign a defense treaty. The information gathered by this Pentagon milk-run was never made public, and while a lot of high officials probably got an all-expenses-paid six-week vacation on the Mediterannean, a good number must have been seriously interested in Spain's military importance. At the time...