Word: warne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal expectably made the State Department nervous, but Carter saw no need to move immediately. He did warn that the U.S. would retaliate in some manner if the British did not agree to new low fares by March 17. Nothing was ever said publicly about possible U.S. restrictions on flights by the state-owned British Airways, a far more important carrier than Caledonian, but the threat was certainly there. As one British embassy spokesman put it: "Carter hung a St. Patrick's Day sword of Damocles over our heads...
...investigation. Following a federal bribery conviction, a former Flood aide named Stephen Elko arrived at the department offering to tell tales?in exchange for immunity from further prosecution?that implicated Flood and Eilberg. Yet by all accounts, this information did not travel up the department hierarchy in time to warn Bell and Carter away from the urgings of Eilberg, whose telephone conversation with the President could be construed as an effort to obstruct justice...
Next, Major General George Keegan, Air Force Chief of Intelligence, recalled a trick that had helped warn off the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Using the same ploy, he sent out a deliberately uncoded message, as though by accident, estimating the number of Russian civilians who would die as the result of any Soviet attack on China. The various U.S. tactics had their effect, Haldeman says. U.S. photos soon showed the Soviet nuclear divisions withdrawing from the border...
...Soviet aim, according to Haldeman, was to position "mediumrange missiles" within range of U.S. nuclear command bases. DEW-line defenses that guard against Russian attack from the north would be unable to warn of a Soviet strike from the south. It was Kissinger who blocked this threat, contends Haldeman, by calling in Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and telling him the U.S. knew about the missiles but did not want another missile crisis. If the Russians desisted, nothing would be said publicly and detente could continue. Construction of the base was abandoned by the Russians...
...wide-ranging study of American high schools, and later of junior high schools, that pointed out a need for higher standards and stricter teachers' qualifications. A firm believer in egalitarianism, Conant provoked controversy for his lambasting of private schools and was also one of the first educators to warn of the "social dynamite" inherent in the poverty of the ghettos...