Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hunt that "the big man"-meaning Mitchell-"said O.K., and the word is go" to bug Democratic national headquarters. Hunt also conceded that he had received secret payments after his arrest, not merely to meet legal fees but so "that I would not reveal my knowledge of the Watergate affair." Also contradicting his previous testimony, he admitted that he had been given guarded White House assurances of Executive clemency through his former boss, Charles Colson...
...Crimson returns home for its last two encounters, the first of which features a Brown team that has another rugged defense. Last season's clash was a wild affair, but this one figures to be a grueling experience...
...Cambridge-area endorsers sponsored and contributed to a fund-raising affair held for Clark last night in Boston...
Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT and member of the New American Movement, last night attacked the American "liberal" press for emphasizing the Watergate affair for the past two years while neglecting more important issues on the international and domestic scenes...
...Perilous Job. True enough-but the Spurr affair was an eloquent reminder of recurring campus politics at Texas, the second richest (after Harvard) and fifth largest university (73,000 students) in the nation. The firing typified the style of the man who forced Chancellor Le-Maistre to do it: Regent Frank C. Erwin Jr., an ex-Democratic national committeeman and crony of Lyndon B. Johnson and former Governor John Connally. Erwin has really run the 16-campus university for more than a decade. Four years ago, for example, he personally fired Liberal Philosopher John Silber as dean of Austin...