Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affairs, Carter's major concern is that his economic-stimulus package, including the $50 tax rebate, pass the Senate. (It has already passed the House.) A number of Senators, chafing at his decision to halt, at least temporarily, a long list of water-control -many would say "pork barrel" -projects, are dragging their feet on the Administration's economic proposals. Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale have begun making personal appeals to recalcitrant Senators for their support. In return, the President has agreed to reconsider some of the water-control projects on which substantial work has been done...
...Katangese are skillfully using classic guerrilla tactics-infiltration and surprise, cabled TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof from Kinshasa. According to sources, by the time Zaire's barrel-chested General Bumba Moaso Djogi arrayed his 2,000 troops and a small contingent of armor west of Mutshatsha, Katangese vanguards were already slipping past his lines...
Jimmy Carter is trying to take the pork out of the pork barrel, and Congress wants to leave it in. The basic fight is as simple as that, but the ramifications are enormous, millions of Americans will be affected, the issues are hotly debatable, and the struggle threatens to become the new President's most serious conflict with Capitol Hill...
...CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT. Congressman Morris Udall, another dedicated conservationist, is urbane enough to acknowledge that one man's "sound water-resource project" is another man's pork barrel. As it happens, one of the Congressman's public works is on Carter's list: the $1.6 billion Central Arizona Project, now about 20% complete, which would draw upon the Colorado River in the western part of the state, pump the water 2,000 ft. uphill and carry it by 400 miles of aqueducts to the outskirts of Phoenix and Tucson...
...traveling fellowship to Europe. In Vienna, then under four-power occupation, he inadvertently walked past the Imperial Hotel, the Soviet headquarters. A Russian sentry trained his submachine gun on the lanky Harvard student. Recalls Schlesinger: "With a rare gesture of compassion, he waved the barrel, motioning me on. I moved." But he remembered the incident when later assessing the attitude behind the continuing Soviet military buildup...