Word: tower
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Senators John Tower and Howard Baker added SALT to the wounds by criticizing negotiations toward a Strategic Arms Limitation treaty that, Tower said, "would place the United States at a strategic disadvantage." The manifesto lays the groundwork for a Senate debate on SALT that could surpass in intensity the Panama Canal battle. Tower and Baker agree that any proposed SALT agreement will be a fall election issue...
...Democratic Senators grumbling on the Senate floor and in the cloakrooms about Carter's foreign policy." Said another: "Hell, if we offered [the manifesto] to the whole Senate, we could have got 75 Senators." The widespread carping prompted Senate G.O.P. Leader Baker two months ago to appoint Texan Tower to head a six-Senator committee to draft a Republican policy statement. They produced a hard-line document that Baker toned down with the help of Republican liberals and moderates...
YARIV / PEOPLE OF PURPOSE Thirty years ago, armor columns smashed a kibbutz in the Negev. The only surviving sign, which hung from the top of the ruined water tower, stated: NOT THE TANK WILL WIN -BUT THE HUMAN BEING...
Most of the dead workers had come from nearby West Virginia farms, and their families gathered that afternoon at a local firehouse, a drab concrete building that was serving as a makeshift morgue. One worker at the tower, Robert Steele, 35, lost ten members of his family−four brothers, three uncles and three cousins. Friends and relatives consoled each other as Red Cross workers called out the victims' names. A young pregnant woman, waiting to identify her husband's body, sobbed on her mother's shoulder. At dusk, small groups of workers and relatives gathered solemnly...
...Wharf, Hillhouse High, Arts and Letters, and Quadrangle, all of which stand for New Haven and Yale, from which he graduated in 1929 and to which he has given more than $40 million in cash. Then there are Christopher Wren, Debrett, King's Parade, Land's End, Tower of London. They represent England and the dignified 18th century values treasured most by Mellon, who was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire in 1974. Literature, another Mellon love, gallops as Knight's Tale, Winter's Tale, Canterbury Tale and Love for Love; and geography...