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Among other things, according to Shrum, Carter has indicated to intimates that he was having second thoughts about his pledges to suspend the B-l bomber program and to trim the Pentagon budget. Carter denied Shrum's charges, explaining that he still opposed the B-l bomber and would cut defense spending by $5-$7 billion in his first year as President but had never promised to continue to cut year after year...
...once again he had run afoul of Americans. This time the issue was the U.S. military presence in Thailand. To improve relations with Thailand's two Communist neighbors-Laos and Cambodia-and reduce protests from Thai leftists, Kukrit last month ordered the U.S. to close its bases and trim personnel from the present 3,500 (down from 49,500 at the height of the Viet Nam War) to 270 military advisers. Alarmed by the Communist threat, many Thai voters as well as the country's powerful military bosses apparently disagreed with the Prime Minister's neu-tralistic...
Chase, armed with a naive countenance and trim haircut, has excited the comedy world with his Ford skits. His athletic ability, coupled with Ford's athletic pursuits, adds a new dimension to political satire: physical comedy. Typical is the opening scene to the December 20th show. Chase, as Ford, climbs to the top of a 15-ft. Christmas tree. While cutting off the branches--Betty told him to trim it--he stumbles from the ladder and falls spectacularly to the wooden floor. As the crowd roars its approval, Chase lifts his head and yells, "Live from New York...
History has to a large degree borne out Bennett's perception of the economy. Inflation has forced the University to trim back many operations and to raise more money from outside sources of income. In energy and fuel expenditures, for example, costs rose by more than $3 million despite a 22 per cent cutback in energy consumption during the past fiscal year. Undergraduates have felt inflation in real terms most heavily in the past three years alone; the cost of attending Harvard/Radcliffe has risen from about $5025 to more than...
Hannon, who looks like a trim Baretta with silvery sideburns, has hoofed both the floors of sardine-can high school gyms and gleaming, 12,000-seat civic centers in his 19 years of officiating. He works as the manager of Rand McNally's shipping and receiving warehouse and lives in Cambridge...