Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cover Up? The Army has also completed a nonjudicial inquiry into the affair-an attempt to find out whether a massacre actually took place and, if so, whether any Army officers attempted to cover it up. Investigators working under Lieut. General William R. Peers have interrogated 398 witnesses, and the group is now working on its report. The continued filing of charges indicates that the Army is convinced that a massacre did occur...
...secret that Kiesinger would welcome an opportunity to oust Brandt, who holds only a twelve-seat majority in the 496-seat Bundestag, and form a government of his own. Is Moscow aware of Brandt's problems? Said a Soviet diplomat: "That is Brandt's affair, not ours." But the unspoken Soviet attitude is that Brandt is a promising partner in negotiations...
...bricklayer, may soon marry Alice Ormsby Gore, 17, daughter of former British Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Harlech-with her father's blessing. "She has gone to see him in New York," said Harlech, "and if they want to get married it is entirely their own affair. They are old friends, and I know Eric very well." Mod Londoners may feel the honor is all Harlech's. A rock-magazine poll named Clapton, formerly of Cream and Blind Faith, the world's top musician...
...forced to accept the love affair on faith alone. Antonioni's decision to substitute physical beauty for acting ability leaves us outside as simple voyeurs. We logically understand what they can feel for each other, but they radiate nothing of their passion, the way Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet were able to do. It is difficult to be anything but sexually aroused by either of Antonioni's characters...
...auto industry has traditionally prospered on what it likes to regard as a love affair between the American people and the car. Detroit sells its products not only as transportation but also as symbols of power, status or constantly renewable youth. But amid declining auto sales and a new public preoccupation with pollution, congestion and cost, some of the industry's leaders have concluded that the love affair has cooled. They believe that their market has changed, fundamentally and permanently. "I think the glamour of the automobile is decreasing," Henry Ford II told TIME Correspondent Peter Vanderwicken. "People...