Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Embarrassing to the Administration from the beginning, the investigation of the bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building last June had now grown legally as well as politically serious. The General Accounting Office, an independent auditing arm of Congress, charged that there were "apparent and possible violations" of law by Nixon's Re-Election Committee and sent its findings to the Justice Department for potential prosecution. The GAO claimed that up to $350,000 in funds were involved. The basic charge was that neither the receipt of these funds nor their disposition was properly...
...fatal," said Hassan-though he may not have told the whole story. Paris' Le Nouvel Observateur reported that those who saw Oufkir's body the next morning said that one bullet had hit him in the stomach, another near the lung, a third in the right arm, and a fourth in the back of his neck emerging through his left eye-too many wounds for a suicide...
...Czechoslovakia in 1956 to marry U.S. Olympian Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly. In a tradition set by the 1908 U.S. Olympic team, she did not dip the American flag before the grandstand* and matched strength with the men of a number of other countries by holding the flag staff at arm's length during much of the march. After the West Germans, as host team, closed the parade, 3,200 Munich schoolchildren sang Sumer Is Icumen In, a far cry from the 1936 Horst Wessel Lied. The traditional doves were released, the Olympic flame was lit by a torch relayed...
...pinpoints crimes. Such reports have often led to prosecution. The notion expressed by Mr. Justice Stewart in a dissenting opinion that the Court's decision "invites state and Federal authorities to undermine the historic independence of the press by attempting to annex the journalistic profession as an investigative arm of government" is well taken. Unfortunately, the Court's decision creates an atmosphere in which the likelihood of a reporter being able to obtain information which could weigh on an investigation is slim indeed...
...compulsory arbitration. The maritime unions are expected to go Republican because the President has increased federal subsidies to the shipbuilding industry. One welcome windfall was a Nixon endorsement by the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, a small but financially potent union that gave COPE, labor's political arm, its single largest contribution...