Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week to additional indictments against Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson, Nixon's former special counsel. For both, it was the second indictment within a week. The fresh indictments were for their roles in the burglary of Beverly Hills Psychiatrist Lewis J. Fielding on Sept. 3, 1971. The aim of the raid was to grab the doctor's files on Daniel Ellsberg, who was then being prosecuted for his release of the Pentagon papers' history of the Viet...
...Harvard chapter of the Committee Against Racism, a group of Faculty and students whose aim is to fight so-called "academic racism," sponsored Kamin's talk...
...indictment spares no harsh words in describing the cover-up conspiracy involving the seven indicted Nixon associates "and others known and unknown." The aim of the conspiracy, the indictment claims, was to conceal the identity of the persons responsible for the Watergate wiretapping, as well as "other illegal and improper activities." Toward that end, the seven tried to prevent officials of the CIA, FBI and Department of Justice from transacting "their official business honestly and impartially, free from corruption, fraud, improper and undue influence, dishonesty, unlawful impairment and obstruction...
...reason for the change was Pompidou's determination to persuade his disenchanted countrymen that the regime plans to attack actively such major problems as inflation and mounting labor unrest. Still another aim, most observers suspect, is the determination of the President-who many Frenchmen believe will resign before the 1976 elections because of his ill health-to keep firm control of the government. By re-appointing Messmer, Pompidou made it clear that he is not yet ready to anoint a possible successor...
...eventually move beyond such cautious investments to ones that have more political clout. One reason: they genuinely, though wrongly, believe that U.S. support for Israel stems partly from a Zionist hammerlock on U.S. business, and are eager to break it. One industrial area that the Arabs are certain to aim at is so-called "downstream" oil activity-refining and marketing in consuming nations. Kuwait is already considering buying a large chunk of Gulf Oil stock (from whom is not clear...