Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claiming that "I did not know, until the time of my own investigation, of any efforts to provide the Watergate defendants with funds" and "I took no part in, nor was I aware of, any efforts that might have been made to cover up Watergate." Asked during an Aug. 22 press conference about Haldeman's version before the Senate committee of the $1 million discussion, Nixon replied: "His statement is accurate." Nixon said he had. in fact, told Dean: "John, it is wrong. It won't work...
...Aug. 29. Colson had a conversation with Dean in which Dean advised him not to send a memorandum to the authorities who were investigating the breakin. (The Colson memo reported that he had been interviewed by Justice Department investigators. But, the memo noted, they had failed to ask him about a meeting that he had held before the break-in with Liddy and Hunt. At that meeting the pair asked Colson for help in getting approval for their political intelligence-gathering plans. Investigators believe that by showing the memo to Dean, Colson made a clever attempt to protect himself...
...Aug. 10, 1972, a meteor streaked northward across the U.S. sky. From the ground, it was first observed south of Salt Lake City, and observers watched it pass over Idaho and Montana before disappearing north of Calgary, Canada. Not until last week, however, was it revealed that the 1,000-ton meteor was also seen from above, by a U.S. Air Force satellite. It was these observations that told scientists how chilling a phenomenon the meteor actually...
...campaign to collect 1,000,000 signatures on a petition asking for a restoration of democracy. His opponents were emboldened by the international protests touched off last fall by the flagrant kidnaping in Japan of Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung presumably by Park's secret police (TIME, Aug. 20). Finally, when the minority New Democratic Party pledged an "all-out struggle" for constitutional reform last week, Park felt that it was time...
...particularly close to earth. The earth will also be close to the sun, and all three bodies, sun, moon and earth, will have moved almost into a straight line.* Thus spring tides along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in early January and February -and again around July 19 and Aug. 17, when similar conditions will occur -should be particularly extreme...