Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intelligence agency), he plunged into talks to see whether he could form an effective government. His goal: getting promises either of abstention or of direct support from scattered independents and defectors from other parties. By week's end Ecevit had corralled five maverick votes and was conducting an "underground" search for more to hammer together a minority government. The alternative was a coalition with the National Salvation Party (24 seats), which Demirel was forced to take into the current government. The N.S.P. leader is Necmettin Erbakan, 51, a smug hard-liner who insists that Turkey made a "concession...
...drugs are still available at Harvard, but they are neither as cheap nor as easy to obtain as they were a decade ago. In the late '60s Harvard Square earned a reputation as one of the nation's clearinghouses for drugs. Today the narcotic industry at Harvard has ducked underground, and most hard drugs are available only intermittently...
Before that can be achieved, all parties need to know how much negotiation can and will be done by a seemingly unrepentant former underground fighter who believes deeply that Israel should not surrender any part of the Jewish people's ancient landed heritage. ''The new government is going to be composed of a group of people who are religious nationalists imbued with mysticism and a belief in force," said one Jerusalem official. "I worry as much about their theocratic tendencies at home as I do about their getting us into...
...mainstream of the national experience. His words applied to the egghead-baiting and benign neglect of the '50s, but they were also prophetic for the drug culture of the '60s and the trivialized mysticism of the '70s. The Feminization of American Culture attempts to tap an underground current. It is that meandering flow of frustrations, veiled hostilities and confusions about power and innocence so common to the powerless...
...screens (each 6 ft. by 8 ft.), which flash the status of U.S. forces. Last week, at the press of a button, the screens gave this picture of some of the U.S. strategic strength on station: 1,054 nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles, most of them sited in concrete-reinforced underground silos scattered across the Great Plains; 21 nuclear-powered submarines gliding stealthily through the world's oceans, their 336 slender missiles within range of Soviet targets; 90 B-52 bombers ready to take to the air on 15 minutes' alert; six aircraft-carrier task groups deployed in the world...