Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second chances-with one exception. Last week Peking's official Hsinhua News Agency announced that the Central Committee of the Communist Party had voted to restore Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, to his former posts as Vice Premier, Vice Chairman of the party and Chief of Staff of the Army. At the same time, said the communique, the "Gang of Four" headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, had "once and for all" been expelled from the party and dismissed "from all posts inside and outside the party...
...took it over in 1967 and later donated it to the city, making Los Angeles the third major U.S. city (after New York and Detroit) with a private mayoral residence. As for maintaining the Bradleys' lavish new quarters, apparently taxpayers needn't worry. Regular city workers will staff occasional parties without straining the municipal budget. In fact, because the mayor used to rent expensive hotel ballrooms to entertain dignitaries, the city may even save some money. All in all, the price was right. Says Bradley: "This was an offer we couldn't refuse...
...proposal that would require banks and savings and loan institutions to give special priority to local community credit needs. Proxmire calls the letter "a direct violation of [Lance's] written commitment to the Senate." A spokesman for Lance argued that the letter had been drafted by OMB staff; Lance merely signed...
...from such heavy canal users as Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Peru, how could they be certain that some future Panamanian ruler might not shut off the canal to their ships in a totally unforeseeable squabble? Largely because of this agreement, General George Brown, Chairman .of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says he is "satisfied" with the negotiations so far and supports rapid conclusion of both treaties...
...intelligence and agency station chief in Bonn in the late 1960s. Thanks to Ostpolitik, the policy of rapprochement with East Germany, Bonn was reluctant to get too tough. But Cline believes the West Germans, "probably because of shock over the Communists' actually infiltrating Brandt's personal staff, have begun to draw the line on the amount of infiltration they will tolerate...