Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name Henry Kissinger surfaced only rarely and obliquely during the entire Watergate affair. Yet Kissinger did not operate in isolation from the rest of the White House. On April 16, 1973, there is this exchange between the President and Haldeman...
...aides who had hired Guillaume despite the warnings of German security police. But that would not have been Willy's way. In a two-paragraph handwritten letter of resignation to President Gustav Heinemann, Brandt declared: "I accept the political responsibility for negligence in connection with the Guillaume espionage affair...
...other sensitive matters. There were rumors, given wide circulation by the anti-Brandt newspapers of Axel Springer, that Guillaume had gathered data about indiscretions in Brandt's private life and had attempted to blackmail the Chancellor. One such unsubstantiated story: Brandt in the early 1950s had an affair with an East German woman who was paid $125,000 by a West German intelligence agent when she threatened to tell all about the liaison...
Angry Critics. Trudeau's budget, which called for higher levies on liquor and tobacco while abolishing taxes on other consumer goods, may have been the immediate catalyst for the end of his affair with the New Democrats and his subsequent defeat. But other developments in recent months helped make the Prime Minister's downfall seem predictable. One notable factor has been a strong political revival of the Conservative Party. A Gallup poll last month showed the Tories' popularity among voters to be up by 3% since February, while the Liberals' had dropped...
Love and Anarchy is not, however, a proletarian version of Day of the Jackal. It is equally about Tunin's being able to bring himself to commit this act of violence and about his love affair with a young whore (Lina Polito), who arouses and assuages him as the day of assassination draws closer. Tunin is no bold gunman. He is assaulted by fear, lulled by affection for the whore. It is never certain that he will be able to make his slightly mad attempt on Mussolini...