Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Revolting and nauseating are the actions against the Vietnamese refugees [Sept. 10]. Why persecute those willing to work long hours and do without so-called necessities in order to get off welfare quickly and not be dependent? Would that many of our citizens were as courageous and independent.
For both sides, the difficulty is resolving the problem without giving the impression of backing down. At the White House, President Carter told congressional leaders only that the negotiations over the 2,600 to 2,800 Soviet troops had reached a delicate phase during which major decisions would have to...
The Kremlin, meanwhile, may be seriously confounded by the entire is sue. A Soviet with considerable experience in American affairs said last week that the furor in the U.S. over the brigade puzzled Soviet leaders and was forcing them to question the "stability and sanity" of the U.S. Government. He...
Congress took one pratfall last week for which it had only itself to blame. At issue was a 7% pay hike that would in crease Congressmen's salaries to $61,525 a year. The House first passed the mea sure, 156 to 64, using a parliamentary procedure that kept...
The latest flap added to a summer of strained U.S.-Israeli relations. Washington is annoyed by Israel's policy of beefing up civilian settlements in the occupied territories and by its air and artillery attacks-using U.S. equipment-on Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon. At week's end...