Word: spokes
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...Illusions. At the NATO Council meeting, Kissinger spoke for history. In a 45-minute closed session he reviewed the state of the world and cautioned that it would be unwise for NATO to indicate in detail in advance how it would respond to a Soviet attack. By maintaining a nuclear option, NATO retains the credibility of its deterrent strength. Thus Kissinger urged the council to reject the Warsaw Pact's proposal for a treaty banning the first use of nuclear weapons and limiting the size of NATO. While warning of growing Soviet military strength, Kissinger stressed that the West...
Poussaint approved the plan, and in October black medical students personally spoke with possible black applicants at 17 colleges, including many Southern schools. The Med School picked up the tab--roughly...
...Thus spoke the fierce Archangel, fiery fiend...
Finally one of the aides remembered that a man on duty at the Summa office in Las Vegas, John Larsen, spoke Spanish. "So they set up a conference call with Larsen, which took further time," Margulis said. "Dr. Chaffin was on the phone in The Office, the nurse was on an extension in Eric Bundy's telephone room, and they were both connected with Larsen in Las Vegas. The doctor would tell Larsen in English what he wanted done. Larsen would question him until he was sure he understood the instructions. Then he would translate them into Spanish and relay...
...satisfy his ministers, Callaghan agreed to speak personally with U.S. President Gerald Ford and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, whose countries will have to put up most of the money for the IMF loan. He spoke on the transatlantic telephone to Ford, and cornered Schmidt face to face at a European Community meeting in The Netherlands last week. Both men refused to budge on the conditions sought by the IMF. Some British Cabinet ministers were dazed at the news that Schmidt, a social democrat like the British Laborites, had been every bit as tough as Republican Ford...