Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kalb brothers assert that "on Sept. 22 [Egyptian President Anwar] Sadat informed [Soviet Party Chief Leonid] Brezhnev that the war would begin on Oct. 6. As far as one can tell, the Russian leader raised no objections." Although "there was a steady flow of intelligence indicating plans for an imminent Egyptian-Syrian attack, the political leaders of Israel and the United States, incredibly, failed to recognize it." On Oct. 5, Kissinger was at the Waldorf Towers in New York City for the General Assembly session. He did not receive a report from Ray Cline, then head of the State Department...
...Hence the muscle-boy photographs he posed for, including one shot of himself wearing a black jockstrap astride a motorcycle. Hence his death, a pseudopolitical ritual suicide at the age of 45 in 1970, performed after he failed to harangue the Japanese army into an uprising to assert the country's imperial traditions...
...Nixon's case. In fact, in the brief statement announcing that it had closed the audit of Nixon's taxes, the IRS explained that it "did not assert the civil fraud penalty [on the President] because it did not believe that any such assertion was warranted." Such a charge would require evidence that Nixon had colluded with his tax accountants, attorneys and aides to produce a fraudulent return. Apparently for similar lack of evidence, the IRS did not impose a 5% penalty on the President for negligence. The most severe course of action in tax cases is to prosecute...
...critics of Kilson's characterization have stated that he believes in the pathology of intra-black association; they claim that he assumes the inferiority of black culture and advocates individualistic acculturation, which would result in the disappearance of cultural blackness. Kilson's critics assert that his analysis is far too negative and is padded by invalid statistics; they ideologically portray him as one committed more to intellectualism than to his own racial identification...
...only one in a medley of graduate student complaints which assert that teaching fellows are receiving inadequate funding this year...