Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resignation, the diplomat was surprised to meet New York Democrat John M. Murphy in the bunker office. Murphy, who first befriended the Nicaraguan 40 years ago when they were classmates at a Long Island military academy, is the dictator's staunchest supporter in the House. Murphy went to Managua at his friend's request and attended the meeting between Pezzullo and Somoza. "The issue isn't Somoza," he told TIME last week, "but Nicaragua and the security interests of the U.S. This Sandinista uprising is a Cuban, Venezuelan, Panamanian, Costa Rican operation. It's another Viet...
...Israel, he was a star attraction, drawing enthusiastic crowds wherever he went. "Are you running for the Senate or the Knesset?" asked Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres. Answered Henry: "Well, those are the only two I qualify for." Besides recieving a doctorate in philosophyhe only philosophy from Hebrew University Kissinger met with Premier Begin and visited the grave of Golda Meir. "She was an incredible personality," he recalled. "I remember once we worked through to 5 a.m., and Golda dismissed us with the comment 'You young people better get to bed. I've got work...
...teau, outside Paris, in 1978-79. He attended Koranic school in Khomein, and was later sent to Arak to study under a well-known Islamic scholar, Abdul Karim Haeri. In 1920, when Haeri moved to Qum and established the famed Madresseh Faizieh, a center of Islamic learning, Ruhollah went with him. Except for his years in exile, Khomeini has lived and taught there ever since...
Such underground violence is the dread of many urbanites, but this particular example took place last week in rural New Hampshire. The participants were 26 New York City transit police who went to Dartmouth College for 14 days of total immersion in Spanish. Of the city's 2,900 subway police, only 135 speak Spanish -in a city with 2.6 million Hispanics...
John Hanley, chairman of Monsanto Co., remembers his moment of conversion. Last March, at a Citibank board meeting in Manhattan, he heard a Georgetown University political analyst expound on America's deteriorating position in the world. As Hanley recalls, "I went home to St. Louis and sat down alone in my office and listed all the candidates from both parties who could conceivably run. Never mind if we could elect him, but who would have the best chance of changing the situation? It was clear as a bell to me that it was John Connally. I sent...