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Members of Congress, especially conservative Republicans, are generally reluctant to push for impeachment under almost any circumstances. Besides the fact that the proceedings would involve drawn-out, bitter debates and a tremendous shock to the entire political process, the lawmakers have to protect their own self-interest. An all-out effort to find the necessary evidence of "high crimes and misdemeanors" could end up incriminating a lot more politicians than Nixon...
...Thursday afternoon, the "crisis"--enlarged by an all-out American military alert--seemed to disappear when the United Nations voted to send a peace-keeping force to the Middle East, the first since...
...whatever the rationale, the crisis spawned by the all-out military alert had dwindled by Thursday afternoon when the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously (China abstained) to create a peace-keeping force in the Middle East without Soviet, U.S., or other big power troops...
...Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army, many Argentines suspect unruly leftists in Perón's own movement. Perón has not publicly accused his leftists, who in fact played a large role in returning him to power. But he has issued orders for an all-out campaign against Marxists in general, not excluding those who call themselves Peronistas...
...news bulletins and classical music were interrupted by such incongruous phrases as "meat pie," "sea wolf" and "wool string"-military codes calling reservists to duty. By late afternoon, virtually every Israeli-and much of the rest of the world as well-knew that what Defense Minister Moshe Dayan defiantly called "all-out war" had begun again...