Word: tooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Chrysler's voluble chairman, Lee Iacocca, took his corporate aid campaign on the road. In a session with TIME, Iacocca was characteristically outspoken. Excerpts...
Babbitt-the state's former attorney general who stumbled into the governorship under a provision of the state constitution last year after Governor Raul Castro took an ambassador's post and his successor, State Secretary Wesley Bolin, died in office-shrugged off the company's reaction. Said Babbitt, who has since won election in his own right: "There is an extremely serious situation down there, and the management of that company has proven its inability to take care of the situation...
Campus unrest and violence overtook the Cambodian operation itself as the major issue before the public. Washington took on the character of a besieged city. On May 9 a crowd estimated at between 75,000 and 100,000 demonstrated on the Ellipse, south of the White House. The President saw himself as the firm rock in this rushing stream, but the turmoil had its effect. Pretending indifference, he was deeply wounded by the hatred of the protesters. In his ambivalence Nixon reached a point of exhaustion that caused his advisers deep concern...
...ahead. He did not negotiate; he simply read me the formal North Vietnamese position, publicly available for months. There was no point in continuing the meeting. Le Duc Tho was not even stalling; he was laying down terms. As I got up to leave, Le Duc Tho took me aside and said in the tone of a fellow conspirator that his side's prospects were "good...
Connally stressed that while we should not cancel the summit, we also should not refrain from doing what we thought necessary out of fear of the Soviets' doing so. Whatever measures we took...