Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday night: 300 "heroes" and their wives, old and new, are winding down the weekend. They have stood and cheered as Ronald Reagan declared that Americans should "never again" go to war "unless we intend to win." Magicians and stand-up comics have sought to amuse. A press release has been circulated announcing that California Governor Jerry Brown will get the "Benedict Arnold Citizenship Award" for appointing ex-antiwar Activist Tom Hayden to the state's new solar energy panel. And now Tony Bennett is closing the show with a sad, silky version of Autumn Leaves...
Despite such calming gestures, a residue of bitterness persists in the wake of Proposition 13's passage. The city council in Livermore (pop. 54,400) has taken a defiant stand, vowing to spend $320,000 on new council chambers even while threatening to fire a fourth of the city's 207 employees. "There might never be that much money on hand again for years," explains Assistant City Manager Edward Shilling...
Byrd knew he had 58 votes. He hoped that he could persuade Alabama Democrat John Sparkman to cast the 60th vote if the 59th could be secured. Byrd had acquired a pledge of that vote from Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who would switch from his pro-filibuster stand if, among other things, the bill were amended to outlaw labor's use of "stranger" pickets, workers from one plant who join picket lines at another. Byrd planned to send the bill back to the Human Resources Committee to add the Long provision...
...reaction to the Israeli vote was publicly mild. "If the peace initiative should fail," he said, "it will not be the end of the world. There will be a new approach." Privately, he has taken comfort from the amount of opposition in Israel to Begin's stand, particularly Weizman's strong reaction. Sadat has threatened in the past to let the Sinai disengagement agreement lapse in October, when it comes up for renewal, if the impasse has not been broken by then. But what he really hopes is that the U.S. will become what he calls a "full...
...that the West Bank is more important than peace or, to put it another way, that there can be no peace and security without maintaining Israeli troops on the West Bank. Among Israelis, that is a widely shared opinion, and Begin loses no points at home for his adamant stand...