Word: call
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House even went so far as to call Nixon's conversations with Pompidou "about the best he ever had" with a foreign leader. The meetings did establish an unusually good personal rapport between Nixon and Pompidou. But all the diplomatic sauce could not conceal the slightly bitter flavor of U.S.French relations. In fact, the visit seemed to underscore the differences between the two nations on Viet Nam and the Middle East...
...more concerned with meteorological than political phenomena. Many occupy their own apartments in a two-square-mile enclave at Isla Vista. Their relaxed morals offend the Santa Barbara citizenry and law officers, who refer to Isla Vista as Sin City. For their part, students openly provoke the locals and call the cops dumb squares...
...They call us the dirty-movie ladies," says Mrs. Margery Shriver. "They don't realize," adds Mrs. Mary Avara, "the headaches we get from watching this stuff." "Can you imagine," asks Mrs. Rosalyn Shecter, "kids at drive-ins getting to see stuff like this? They do elsewhere, you know...
...spring of 1946, an American OSS veteran named James Thompson paid a call on the governor of Thailand's Nong Khai province. "Come upstairs," said the governor. "I have a Lao prince you might like to meet." The governor's guest was Prince Souphanouvong, then a leader of the embryo Laotian independence movement and now titular head of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. Souphanouvong asked Thompson for pledges of U.S. support against the French colonialists who were then re-establishing their control over Laos. Their talk was, almost certainly, the first contact between American officials and independence-minded...
...Angry Swiss. The commercial airline pilots, long victimized by Cuban hijackers as well as Arab gunmen, were particularly upset. In London, the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations promised that unless measures were taken to end terrorist attacks, it might call out its 45,000 pilot members and ground commercial airlines all over the world. International airline executives, meanwhile, called an emergency meeting in Paris for this week to discuss ways of curbing the terrorism...