Word: saying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emotional attack on the Shah, who, he claimed, "ran one of the most violent regimes in the history of mankind." How can we justify taking in the Shah "with his umpteen billions of dollars that he'd stolen from Iran," Kennedy demanded, "and at the same time say to Hispanics who are here legally that they have to wait nine years to bring their wife and children to this country...
...reduce their East German force, which includes 6,700 tanks and 365,000 troops. Moreover, the outfit involved in last week's withdrawal, the Sixth Guards Tank Division, is rated by the Pentagon as the least capable of all the Soviet units in the Warsaw Pact countries. Essentially, say U.S. analysts, the much ballyhooed pullout is "strictly show business...
...Meanwhile, conservation of existing supplies is indispensable, and politicians would do well to face the issue. Concludes Milton Lipton, president of the leading petroleum advisory firm of Walter J. Levy Consultants: "Despite the inevitable inequities of either steep taxes or rationing, there comes a time when you have to say, 'Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead.' I cannot think of a better time to ask the American people to accept either of those measures than during the current Iranian crisis. The political opportunity may never be better...
...when Hannon recently telephoned to talk about the schools with his friend Don Reuben, a well-connected local lawyer and adviser to Chicago's Mayor Jane Byrne, he got a chilling message. "Things had changed," Hannon recalls being told. "He said if I had anything more to say I'd better have my attorney handy...
...William Douglas tried to exert influence even after he retired. He attempted to file a dissent in a campaign finance case and asked to have a tenth chair brought into the courtroom when the court heard oral arguments on the death penalty. Brennan, his old liberal ally, had to say...