Word: towards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragically wrong. The DC-10 touched down on the closed runway and headed toward a dump truck. Gilbert apparently realized his mistake and tried, too late, to lift the DC-10 back into the air. The plane smashed into the truck, veered wildly to the right, wound up slamming into an Eastern Air Lines maintenance building and burst into flames. The final death count was 73: a total of 60 passengers, eleven crew members, including Gilbert, and two people on the ground...
...present case, the question is in what way the U.S. can best use its influence toward bringing about a cease-fire in the Western Sahara between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario guerrillas, who want to establish an independent state in the area formerly ruled by Spain. Morocco's King Hassan II is pressing the U.S. to sell him the Bronco planes and Cobra helicopter gunships he feels he needs to continue the fight against the guerrillas. The U.S. State Department opposes the sale and cites a CIA assessment that Morocco cannot win the war against the Polisarios...
Part of Lynch's mission to the U.S. is to discourage Irish Americans from misguided sentimentality toward the I.R.A. Though contributions have been cut in half since 1976, U.S. aid to the I.R.A. still amounts to about $350,000 a year, and it can come in very lethal forms. Late last week a sealed container of armaments from the U.S. was seized in Dublin harbor. The shipment included M60 machine guns, Armalite rifles (snipers' weapons) and 40,000 rounds of ammunition. Another concern is moral backing of the I.R.A. by some U.S. politicians, whom Lynch accuses of hobbling...
...Governor Carey's plan for U.S. mediation: No. This is a matter between the British and ourselves and the elected representatives of the North. But we would be appreciative of any moral influence that President Carter could exercise toward producing a solution between us and the United Kingdom...
...infatuation with a figure that bears within it the seeds of its own destruction." Kirkland wants to replace the old standard with case-by-case wage settlements. The top business representative on the board. National Association of Manufacturers President R. Heath Larry, argued equally adamantly against moving toward any à la carte pay guide. At another point in the meeting, Kirkland and R. Robert Russell, director of the Administration's Council on Wage and Price Stability, heatedly squabbled over whether unions should try to make up in wages the income lost due to higher energy prices. The committee...