Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Since Election Day, the President has been arguing that he has achieved working control of the Senate. But the 92nd Congress will not be seated until January, and in the interim the White House wanted very much to demonstrate forward momentum by winning its first important test in the current lame-duck session. When the showdown came last week-on a Senate move to override a Nixon veto-the Administration won a close fight...
...independence 22 years ago, has taken some steps to correct the economic and political imbalance between East and West. But he has a long way to go. In the world's fifth most populous nation (pop. 130 million), a group of "20 families"-nearly all in West Pakistan-control 66% of Pakistan's industry and 80% of its banking and insurance assets. Only two of the enormously privileged 20 bothered to contribute to the disaster relief effort. Their ante: $100,000 each. Yahya has contributed $9,000 from his own pocket and $116 million from the treasury...
...Chinese have been quietly supporting a new group of Communist insurgents who have frequently bloodied Ne Win's 150,000-man army in clashes in Burma's sparsely populated northeast. Something less than half of the country (pop. 27 million) is really under Rangoon's control...
...real dream was to die a hero's death for Japan. He was born Kimi-take Hiraoka, son of an aristocratic samurai family, and was imbued with a warrior code that apotheosized complete control over mind and body and loyalty to the Emperor. At 18, he felt an almost erotic fascination with the death that, he was certain, awaited him when he would be drafted. But his wish to die for the Emperor was thwarted by a weak body and a frail constitution...
...sources quoted in both the Post and the Times, Khrushchev was unaware that any version of his reminiscences had reached the West when LIFE announced publication. Several days later, the informants said, he received a telephone call from Arvid Pelshe, a Politburo member and chairman of the Party Control Commission, which runs checks on party members. "We have business with you," he said. Though ailing, Khrushchev was picked up at his dacha and driven to the Kremlin, where he was confronted with the news of publication and an already prepared statement of denial. Khrushchev, according to the reports, denied...