Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skeptical. The Israelis, for instance, have indicated they would abandon their policy of pre-emptive shelling if the P.L.O. would pledge similar restraint. Some faint hopes for broader cooperation between these two groups eventually were also raised by Israel's Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan, who hinted in New York last week that Israel might even consider direct dealings with the P.L.O. one day. But only if it were to transform itself from a "military organization" into a "political framework," he was careful to insist...
...will soon go abroad for international pre-Olympic competitions. Last week party officials were preparing to give prospective travelers special indoctrination lectures. A more forceful method of ensuring loyalty is in store for eleven Soviet boxers who are scheduled to compete in the World Cup Championship matches at New York City's Madison Square Garden this month. Instead of two trainers, as is customary, 18 security men in the guise of coaches will literally stand guard over their athletes...
...Italy's notorious fallen angel of high finance, was first reported kidnaped from a Manhattan street two months ago, Italians as well as U.S. authorities were skeptical. Most believed that the native Sicilian had arranged his own disappearance. After all, he was about to stand trial in New York City on a 99-count indictment of financial finagling, and was wanted in Milan on charges of bank fraud totaling $225 million...
...fear now is that bureaucratic meddling may create distribution bottlenecks and local shortages later in the winter. New York state officials, for example, are concerned that in order to maintain their inventories at levels mandated by the Energy Department, oil companies are holding back shipments to jobbers, distributors and other middlemen, something the oil firms deny...
With resentments rising, the Department of Energy last week opened hearings into the familiar but unsubstantiated charges of heating-oil profiteering by refiners, even as a group of 15 Senators, led by New York Republican Jacob Javits and New Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams, was urging Duncan to reinstate heating-oil price controls. The restrictions were lifted in 1976, but can be reimposed by Executive order at any time; the Administration's resistance to such controls could weaken as the 1980 election campaign heats...