Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambodian cities, including Phnom-Penh, have become little more than transportation railheads for rural cooperatives as the government, citing a threat from "spies" of all sorts, forced people into the countryside. The cooperatives are spartan. Some of the refugees in Thailand are from a typical cooperative in a village called Kok Tlok. As they describe it, the village, really a large plantation, houses 10,000 residents in thatched huts, with up to three families in each hut. The cooperative is run by only five controllers, and were it not for the gaunt residents' tattered clothes-the regime issues...
...picture a living Soviet leader since Stalin. At a reception after the parade, Brezhnev, who will be 71 next month, sounded considerably more conciliatory than had Defense Minister Ustinov. Offering a toast "to lasting peace on earth," he promised to "do everything in our power to ease the threat of war, to strengthen peaceful cooperation among states...
...weeks Carter had been underscoring his concern about the fate of the energy bill by threatening to sacrifice his trip abroad for the sake of a last-minute, all-out onslaught on Capitol Hill. The threat had become a promise, and it was a promise he had to keep...
Bell took the threat seriously. He told Williams that if Helms would plead nolo contendere (no contest)-in reality an admission of guilt-to the misdemeanors, the Justice Department would support Helms' insistence that his accumulated federal pension rights be protected, and would recommend that he not be imprisoned. This bargain was intended to ensure that no national secrets would be endangered at a trial. At the same time, it would demonstrate that the Carter Administration is in accord with Congress that even CIA chiefs are accountable to both the public...
...this case, at least, the schoolboy remained honorable. He reported the FBI's threat to the Soviet embassy in Washington, which in turn protested to the State Department. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher complained to the White House about the FBI'S disregard of the State Department, and Joseph Duffey, then Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, took the matter up with Vice President Walter Mondale. At least one indignant official accused FBI hard-liners of deliberately trying to sabotage detente. Much more likely, FBI bureaucrats were stubbornly, and ham-handedly, doing what they...