Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frost probed Nixon's motives in striking out at his critics, the former President anticipated the questions. "Am I paranoiac about hating people and trying to do them in?" he asked. "The answer is: At times, yes. I get angry at people ... but an individual must never let hatred rule him." His bitterness showed when he described Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the secret Pentagon papers, as "the punk." It also showed toward the Kennedys as he related how Jack and Jackie had never once invited him and Pat to the White House for a meal, even though...
Unjust System. But on the crucial question, South Africa's political system, there was not the slightest agreement. Vorster and his delegation had argued that apartheid is not discriminatory and that the homelands will be truly independent. Mondale's public answer: "We cannot accept, let alone defend governments that reject the basic principle of full human rights, economic opportunity and political participation for all their people, regardless of race." To arguments by the South African government that it is keeping the region free of Communism, Mondale replied: "We believe that perpetuating an unjust system is the surest incentive...
...violating the Helsinki declaration of 1975, in which 35 nations promised to respect religious and other liberties. The repression of Rumanian Evangelicals may be less harsh than that of other religious and political dissidents in Eastern Europe, but the petition raises important questions that the government may have to answer at next month's Belgrade conference to review the Helsinki accord. The petition charges three basic types of persecution...
...comes down the aisle, taking cash, checks, and credit cards from everybody. S. has a brainstorm. He gives the stewardess his Bursars card, and says, "Charge it." (Do you think I'm making this up? Well, I'm not.) "Charge it,'; he says. So what does the stewardess do? (Answer later...
...Answer later...