Word: auge
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...Friday, Aug. 30, Ford called Buchen into the Oval Office. Ford asked him how long the criminal process and the trial of Nixon might drag on, how long it would be before the nation finally had Watergate behind it. Buchen's answer fell like lead: it would take nine months to a year before a trial could begin. Jaworski himself had told Buchen that, because of the massive publicity surrounding the House Judiciary Committee's unanimous finding that Nixon should be impeached because he obstructed justice, it would take a year or even longer "before the selection of a jury...
With few exceptions, however, Democrats in Congress were angered by the President's decision-the first real break in the good fellowship that has existed between Capitol Hill and the White House since Aug...
...conference call to key news representatives. A secretary then read a formal statement from Nixon. It was the closest the ex-President has come to admitting culpability in his handling of the Watergate affair, but it still fell short of an acknowledgment of guilt. In his resignation speech of Aug. 8, Nixon conceded "misjudgments," but insisted that they had been committed in the national interest. This week he confessed that he had been wrong in not acting more decisively on Watergate, "particularly when it reached the stage of judicial proceedings and grew from a political scandal into a national tragedy...
...Turks' hard-lining stand was bolstered by the discovery of a mass grave at the village of Maratha in eastern Cyprus, with 84 crumbling corpses; the village's population had been only 93. As Village Shepherd Kemal Mustafa described it, Greek gunmen entered Maratha Aug. 14, herded away elderly men, women and children and shot them. The number of victims was confirmed by Swedish United Nations officers. Greek authorities rather unconvincingly said that the corpses might be Greek Cypriots instead of Turkish-a suggestion that the Turks angrily denounced as an "added insult to our grief." Later...
Community dissatisfaction with police intensified with the handling of the black patrolmen's federal court suit. Members of the Coalition to Combat Racism were disturbed when Mayor Sullivan on Aug. 19 denied charges of racial discrimination in police hiring and promotion practices. Sullivan said, "When I was mayor in '68, we gave them [blacks] the opportunity. We provided programs for those minority people, but they never went through with them...