Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent visit to Cambridge I chanced to see David R. Caploe's review of Susan Sontag's documentary "Promised Lands" (Aug. 9). I am aware that Israel is no longer the liberal cause it was during my undergraduate days, but nevertheless take umbrage at the blatant anti-Zionism of the review...
Gradually, and chiefly through Buchen, there emerged some additional but still unsatisfactory explanations of the Ford decision. When Ford contended at his Aug. 28 press conference that it would be "unwise and untimely" for him to pardon Nixon before any charges had been brought against him, aides said that he was simply unaware he had the power to pardon before indictment, trial and conviction. Just two days later, on Aug. 30, he asked Buchen to study that question. Buchen quickly discovered, as any reader of informed legal speculation in newspaper accounts at the time had also learned, that Presidents...
...public reaction?and failed to think them through. Buoyed by his Honeymoon reception and seeking a Trumanesque reputation for decisiveness, he acted immediately and impulsively on his determination to pardon Nixon. If eventually he was going to pardon him, as he had in effect indicated he would in his Aug. 28 press conference, then why not now? A diehard defender of Nixon's innocence until the ample contrary evidence became unchallengeable, Ford by this theory appreciated neither the seriousness of Nixon's transgressions nor the prevailing public concern that justice should run its course at least until all the truth...
...which included several mass demonstrations and a break-in at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. The emotional outburst had been building up since last month's unsuccessful assassination attempt against Korea's dictatorial President Park Chung Hee, in which Park's wife was inadvertently killed (TIME, Aug...
Sullivan apparently does not have a large campaign chest or extensive financial resources. He claimed total assets of $108,736 and a net worth of $51,800 in tax statements he made public Aug...