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Caramanlis, however, does not have a completely free hand. The Greek military still looms as a potent ar biter of the government's ac tions, particularly in the sensitive negotiations over Cyprus. Many military men remain strongly committed to eventual enosis, and the officers may be tempted to oust the new Premier if he concedes too much to Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots...
...system might appear designed to make Exxon a slow-moving debating society -a kind of centipede with ar thritis. In fact, Exxon has an enviable reputation for being nimble. The main reason is that the New York headquarters still grants considerable autonomy to subsidiaries and affiliates in the field...
...outside chance that the President refuses to provide testimony, the defense can ar gue that it is being denied due process of law because a vital witness is withholding information. But the defense expects Nixon to repeat in writing what he stated last May: even though he did not order the Los Angeles break-in and in fact disapproved of it, he believed that the plumbers were acting in the interest of national security. Ehrlichman and the other two defendants argue that they are the victims of "discriminatory prosecution"; that is, they are being prosecuted for an act (illegal breaking...
Almost Great. "There was an ar dor in Boucher's imagination, but not much veracity and still less elevation," wrote a stuffy diarist named Marmontel. "His encounters with the Graces had never had a respectable setting." It is not far from that to the later outraged philippics of Diderot, who treated Boucher's hedonism as a moral menace - "simperings, affectation, nothing but beauty spots, rouge, gewgaws...
...canal that stretched back for miles. Tanks, trucks and vans of every description-many with ON TO CAIRO scrawled on their sides-waited their turn to cross the bridges. The western bank was swarming with men and machines. The litter of blackened tanks and trucks of both ar mies and the stench of rotting corpses in the canal attested to the fierceness of the battle that had produced this new "bulge" in Egypt. We were soon speeding away from the bridgehead on a route that was to bring us directly into contact with the enemy forces...