Word: caputo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philip Caputo's 1977 memoir, A Rumor of War, another excellent and painfully earned book, recalls how he was inspired by John Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you ..." Caputo joined the Marines: "Having known nothing but security, comfort, and peace, I hungered for danger, challenges, and violence." At the end of his three-year enlistment, Caputo writes, "I came home from the war with the curious feeling that I had grown older than my father, who was then 51 ... Once I had seen pigs eating napalm-charred corpses-a memorable sight, pigs eating...
...elections, a conscious effort to win the big urban voting blocs that for decades (Rockefeller excepted), have been under Democratic lock and key. For the first time in memory, they argue, none of the candidates for governor or lieutenant governor is an "upstater": Duryea's running mate, Rep. Bruce Caputo, operates out of Westchester, while the Democratic ticket of Gov. Hugh L. Carey and perennial candidate Mario M. Cuomo hails from Brooklyn and Queens, respectively. The geographical factor--always crucial, but even more so in the era of Swiss-cheese bond issues and state aid for the city...
...life." She tracked the man down at another Congressman's office, and he returned to pick up the rejected gift. Elder has identified the Korean from a selection of 14 pictures as the former ambassador, who is now President Park's foreign affairs assistant. Committee Member Bruce Caputo, a New York Republican, elicited the allegation from another Korean embassy employee that a Senator and a top aide in the Ford White House had also received Korean cash...
Reactions of Harvard Square businessmen to the Red line project varied yesterday. One restaurant manager said "it has to hurt us," but Thomas E. Caputo of Nini's Corner said "Do I look worried...
...Caputo insisted that the unexpectedly close vote "definitely was a signal" to Seoul to cooperate in the influence-peddling investigation. But there was no sign that the Koreans would read it that way-or should. The White House does not want to threaten to reduce or eliminate aid. The decision to start pulling out part of America's 33,000 ground troops from South Korea by next year has bothered the U.S.'s other Asian allies, notably Japan. Also, the Koreans still have plenty of friends in Congress. In another move last week, the House decided...