Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel we need to return to sanity, wind down the committee circus in Washington, get the Watergate affair into its proper perspective and off the TV tubes and front pages, and get on to working on the real problems that face our nation...
...Select Committee still expects to question seven further witnesses about the Watergate burglary and the subsequent coverup. Also missing from the record is the potentially (but not necessarily) decisive evidence from the tapes of conversations secretly recorded by the President. Nixon's latest account of the affair, presumably to be given this week, could alter the weight of evidence already before the committee...
...only four years ago,* the party leadership and the government since then have suffered massive upheavals. In 1971 China's institutions had just begun to recover from the dislocations caused by the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution when they were again shaken by the Lin Piao affair. Though he was Mao's heir designate, Lin, according to the official Peking version, attempted a coup against Mao. When his plot was discovered, he tried to escape to the U.S.S.R., but died when his plane mysteriously crashed deep inside Mongolia...
...attack which represents the finese impromptu defense of a worthy, cause I have ever seen. It is to the credit of the stodgy debaters that they eventually see the light and award the clear victory to the finer combatant. Right on. Channel 44. 11:30 p.m.--An Affair to Remember. Or forget, depending on your perspective. This is admittedly a syrupy vehicle: the story of two middle-aged people who resign themselves to the fact that they must, indeed, marry to live fulfilled and meaningful lives, so each becomes engaged to a partner in whom he has little more than...
...Swiss firm Interhandel to look after its interest in its U.S. subsidiary, General Aniline & Film. In 1942 GAF was confiscated by the U.S. Government because Interhandel was believed to be a front for the German cartel I.G. Farben. It was while the "little American" worked on this affair (in which he finally won a $150 million settlement) that Second Lieut. Inouye lost his right arm in Army combat in Europe. Among Wilson's other famous cases: a 1970 victory in the Supreme Court upholding Barry Goldwater's libel judgment of $75,000 against Eros and Fact Publisher Ralph...