Word: posting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students for years to come may well read about the U.S.-Iranian relationship of the '60s and '70s as the case study of a policy that paralyzed itself. "The Iran dilemma" may even creep into the lexicon of political scientists who, with the benefit of hindsight, conduct post-mortems on the agony that the Carter Administration is now experiencing...
After Israel proclaimed its independence, Ben-Gurion named her as the new nation's first ambassador to Moscow. He later made her Minister of Labor, then Foreign Minister, a post in which she stoutly supported his policy of tough retaliation for every act of Arab sabotage or raid. Said Ben-Gurion: "She is the only man in my Cabinet." Overall, she had a love-hate relationship with Israel's blustery, impulsive first Premier. At his behest, she Hebraized her last name from Meyerson to Meir (meaning illumination). Privately she referred to Ben-Gurion as "that...
...Korean War, served as military assistant to the Secretary of Defense (1959-63), and in 1968 became responsible for the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia. In 1973 President Nixon made him chief of staff of the Air Force and one year later appointed him to his last post. A blunt man with a compulsion to speak his mind, Brown caused a storm of protest when in 1974 he criticized Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy...
Charles A. Krause, the Washington Post's South American correspondent who had escaped from the Port Kai-tuma ambush with a superficial bullet wound, managed to join the pool of reporters that returned to the Jonestown site with Guyanese authorities. He was filing from his hotel room in Georgetown when Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee recalled him to Washington. There Krause holed up in a suite at the Madison Hotel and began working. "It was sort of like Georgetown," Krause recalled. "I was being held captive." At first dictating his recollections and later doing his own typing, Krause...
...does money appear to be the main incentive for authors-though CBS has already made a deal with the Washington Post team. Advances are modest by paperback standards; Krause received some $40,000 up front, to be divided among three collaborators...