Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obsolete. For another. Carter's decision may make it harder to negotiate with the Soviets for a new treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. The reason: by dropping the B1, he is dramatically increasing U.S. reliance on the cruise missile, which the Russians view as the most worrisome threat in the American arsenal. The initial Soviet reaction to Carter's move was frosty. Commented Tass, the official Russian news agency: "The implementation of these militaristic plans has seriously complicated efforts for the limitation of the strategic arms race." Although the U.S. has proposed to the Soviets that...
Nothing pussyfooted about the average gang or "click," as some kids like to call it. At the top of the heap is the "prez," who, if he wants to stay there, had better respond to every threat and challenge. The "veep" supervises internal affairs, especially dues and initiation rituals; the "war counselor" plans the "ripoffs" and "gang-hits" and commands the "gestapo" squads, which consist of the enforcers; the "armorer" keeps the weapons functioning in a safe place such as an abandoned building or a girl friend's apartment. Even automatic and semiautomatic firearms-like...
...Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, wrote a careful letter of "support" to Carter, which nevertheless reminded him of the U.S. commitment to Israel's security and endorsed the idea of a nonimposed settlement. The State Department message, insisted Assistant Secretary Alfred Atherton, was "certainly not intended as a threat of any sort" to Israel. At his press conference Carter declared a Washington moratorium on any "additional comments on specifics" about the Middle East until Begin's visit, adding a promise that the Israeli Premier would be received warmly. Begin himself denied that he was setting any preconditions...
...Central States, Southeast and Southwest pension fund. Under the guidance of both icy Jimmy Hoffa and shuffling Frank Fitzsimmons, trustees treated the fund as a pot of honey to be ladled liberally to friends and acquaintances. Now, after a two-year investigation by the Department of Labor and a threat by the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the fund's tax-exempt status, Fitzsimmons and his pals have been forced to resign from the fund's board of trustees, and management of the assets has been entrusted to the Equitable Life Assurance Society. "Our only requirement was that...
...Death Threat. A lefthander with a sizzling backhand and an impressive overhead. McEnroe was swinging relaxed and free, fully aware that the pressure was on the big names to defeat him In the dubious new tradition of explosive court manners, he threw his share of temper tantrums-and racquets-along the way. Still, compared with Nastase's death threat against a New York Times reporter and Connors' deliberate snub of the parade of past champions, McEnroe's behavior was no more reprehensible than that of a high-spirited schoolboy-which he is. McEnroe's remarkable odyssey...