Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were made for reporters to be briefed extensively in the U.S. on the details of the new arms control treaty. In Washington, the White House alerted the TV networks that President Carter might be making a major statement that they would want to broadcast live. There was speculation a similar statement would be made in Moscow by Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. The two leaders, it was assumed, would announce their long awaited summit in mid-January. Would there be any fallout on SALT from Washington's decision to normalize relations with China? Absolutely not, Carter told...
People in Waterloo, Iowa, had a similar view of Gacy a decade ago. Living there with his first wife and two children, he managed three Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. He was chaplain in the Jaycees and even campaigned for the presidency of the organization. Then in 1968 he was convicted of sodomy with a 16-year-old boy and sentenced to ten years in prison. His wife divorced him, but he was a model citizen in prison and won parole after 18 months...
...year-old social-democratic Ecevit government was being brutally tested in ways similar to the more drastic turmoil in neighboring Iran. But there were also differences. The key one was that the violence that threatened Ecevit's government was based on religious rivalry. One of the factions is Turkey's Shi'ite Muslim minority (known locally as Alevis), which comprises 25% of the country's 41 million people. The Alevis are regarded as left-leaning and generally support Ecevit's Republican People's Party. The other is the country's Sunni Muslim majority...
Lyet calls for new thinking, and not only from those provincial business types. Government trustbusters, he feels, should consider permitting U.S. companies to set up international consortiums to compete against similar groupings that are allowed by foreign governments. Unions should not buck investments abroad by multinational corporations but should recognize that they enhance exports-and create jobs domestically-because the new foreign branches inevitably demand large amounts of parts from...
...Chinese delegation, save the waiters who sported white tops and used cardboard Coca-cola boxes instead of trays, wore the same sort of suit that Mao was dressed in, with various shades of dark gray. The women wore similar gray pants with short, colored, brocade tops. They posed an interesting contrast to the other women in the room--overseas Chinese and Americans. Some of the female guests wore brightly colored satin while other donned Chinese jade; none was in pants...