Word: branch
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Senator we're all appalled at the turn of events in Southeast Asia. What Nixon's done is at least as bad as Johnson's actions. We're expressing concern to everybody we could find. We have lost trust in the executive branch...
...weeks ago, Kevin Patrick Moran, 22, an honors student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was killed by a bullet as he attempted to put out a fire at the beleaguered Isla Vista branch of Bank of America (TIME, April 27). It was widely reported that he had been shot by a sniper, while he and other moderate students dealt directly with the attacking radicals...
...DEFENSE COMMAND, also a separate branch, has 500,000 men. It has 3,400 interceptor aircraft, mostly MIG-19s and MIG-21s, and a number of giant TU-114s, which patrol Soviet borders as early-warning radar aircraft. Long-range antiaircraft SA-5 missiles are installed on the Tallinn Line along the Gulf of Finland. Around Moscow the Soviets have deployed the world's first ABM system, consisting of 64 Galosh missiles, which carry a 1-or 2-megaton warhead and have a range of several hundred miles. Because the Soviets halted deployment of the Galoshes three years...
...Kevin Moran, 22, an honors student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the violence last February that resulted in the burning of the Isla Vista branch of the Bank of America was senseless and unnecessary. When an angry mob of radicals tried once more to fire the bank, Kevin and a small group of moderate students took their stand. After a night of attacks repelled by 250 police using tear gas, the students, in the hope of avoiding bloodshed, asked the police to stay out of the area and let them put down the radicals and defend the bank...
...increase for 5,300,000 federal employees. The increase would include the nation's 725,000 postal workers, who stand to get annual pay hikes ranging from $371 to $507 a year. Even that did not please everyone. Gustave Johnson, leader of the letter carriers' Manhattan Branch 36, which began last month's strike, called the settlement a "wisp of smoke" and threatened another one if Washington did not increase the ante. The Administration may have trouble enough just paying for the current raise, which will cost $2.5 billion a year. Congress has made it clear that...