Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is, in fact, a bit of friction between presidential aides in the West Wing, where Powell and others now admit they have tended to underestimate Mrs. Carter's considerable potential, and the East Wing, where Mrs. Carter's staff would like her to get more attention, and yet, contrarily, overprotects her from the press, which she is quite capable of handling with a Southern combination of firmness and grace. Concedes Powell: "We just haven't done the job we could have in utilizing her. We've been so caught up in other things, we neglected...
Undaunted, Mrs. Carter keeps in touch with what goes on beyond her surprisingly bare desk in a small, unpretentious East Wing office. She slips into Cabinet meetings and high-level briefings, like the one held this month by Vice President Walter Mondale on his return from a Middle East trip. "I try to stay knowledgeable," she explains. "I just try to keep up with what is happening." Then, in her quiet way, she tells Carter what she thinks. And he listens...
...into an uproar. Rabbi Menachem Hacohen, a member of the Labor Party, asked: "What is that? A peace poster?" (The reference was to an earlier incident in which Defense Minister Weizman had ripped down a poster outside Begin's office.) Called out Meir Peil, head of the left-wing Shelli Party: "A Premier on the rostrum ripping up papers?" Begin answered with sarcasm: "Did I wake you up, Knesset Member Peil? Shalom alechem...
...traditionally turbulent Bolivia, where there has never been an untainted election, the results of yet another crooked one led last week to a sudden coup. Juan Pereda Asbún, 47, an air force general, led his right-wing military followers in seizing key buildings in the city of Santa Cruz. Reason: an electoral court had thrown out the results of the July 9 presidential balloting, the country's first election since 1966, which had established Pereda as the apparent winner. Bolivia's military leaders, headed by General Hugo Bánzer Suárez, 52, declared...
...have insisted on not being told. She explained: "I've been waiting too long for this to be denied the surprise of learning whether the baby is a boy or girl at birth." Late in her pregnancy, Mrs. Brown was sent to the spacious and well-equipped maternity wing at Oldham. There she presumably underwent all the most advanced testing: ultrasonic scanning to check the position, size and bodily shape of the fetus as it developed; monitoring of hormone levels and fetal heart beat; and perhaps withdrawal of amniotic fluid from the womb to determine whether the child had Down...