Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secret Service agent standing in the marbled West Hall about a relative's health. "She's better, Mr. President, thanks," the agent answers. It is 6:45 a.m., the time Carter normally begins his day. He concludes his brief conversation and walks briskly outdoors toward the West Wing, along the colonnade bordering the Rose Garden. He throws open the tall glass door to the Oval Office, strides through that exquisite, historic room and heads directly for his study. Another day in Carter's young presidency has begun...
...skies last week, after an American 707 took off from St. Louis, one of its four engines fell off. The pilot easily landed, and a team of experts began looking into the possibility that metal fatigue may have caused the pylon bearing the engine to break away from the wing...
...Slate. The man with perhaps the strongest claim on the right of succession was the suave, tough-minded Peres (see box). There was speculation that Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, 58, might contest Peres for the nomination. Allon, whose strength lies with the dovish left-wing Mapam faction of the party, eventually decided not to do so. Thus the path was cleared for a party-unifying compromise: Peres would run for Premier, his ally Abba Eban would be nominated for his old post of Foreign Minister, and Allon would be offered Defense. On Sunday, the Central Committee voted overwhelmingly for Peres...
...welcome first step in exposing and redressing the FBI's illegal activities over the last several years. Between late 1970 and June, 1972, Kearney allegedly ordered members of the Bureau's internal security division to commit burglaries, illegally open mail and tap telephones of several New York based left wing organizations...
...ideology and background. The Jan Sangh, which is the largest group, was a rightwing, communal Hindu party, a less vehement descendant of the militant RSS that allegedly murdered Mahatma Gandhi. The BLD was largely made up of small-time landowners from northern India. The Old Congress was the conservative wing of the Congress Party which split away in 1969. Finally, there are the Socialists led by trade union leader George Fernandes, a group rather mild as far as Socialists go, but the only leftist element in this coalition...