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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army-bound O'Brien, there were agonizing decisions to be made. He wondered if it was the morally courageous choice to abandon his country rather than join it in making unjust...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: The Red Badge | 5/8/1973 | See Source »

Rosovsky intends to follow President Bok's priorities which have recently turned towards undergraduate education. "I am not in favor of seeing Harvard as primarily a graduate school," he said, but he noted that he would not abandon the problems of graduate education...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: Rosovsky Regrets Leaving Teaching To Take Administrative Responsibility | 5/1/1973 | See Source »

...National Committee headquarters?" Mitchell's reply: "No, I can't imagine a less productive activity than that." And if the Nixon committee, as Mitchell also claimed last June, had played no part in the wiretapping operation, then why did he approve payments to support the arrested men? Why not abandon them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Ripping Open an Incredible Scandal | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

Magruder joined C.R.P. early last year and hoped for a political career, aiming to run for Secretary of State of California next year and Governor or U.S. Senator in 1978. But he was forced to abandon his plans after his involvement in political espionage came out during the Watergate trial. His heart was set on a high Administration post after the election, but Haldeman told him that he would not be in line for a top position (which would require Senate confirmation) because he was too tainted by Watergate. Disappointed, he settled for a specially created but vague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Who's Who in the Watergate Mess | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...were peaking at this time, she said. Coupled with the increasing difficulty she was having garnering information, her complaints that the intelligence agencies were not paying her enough, were not understanding her concern for Cambridge's people, and were doing a "shoddy" job of intelligence gathering, prompted her to abandon her undercover work...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Jessie Gill Comes In From the Cold | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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