Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, the leaked report played right into the hands of the growing number of critics who argue that the investigations have weakened the needed secret agencies. The backlash over the leaks threw the congressional investigators further on the defensive, just as both committees were winding up their probes. The weak and fumbling House committee, headed by zealous New York Congressman Otis Pike, disbanded last week, and Church's Senate panel, which has been less accident-prone, is to wind up by March 1. As a result, the Administration had an opportunity to push its own proposals for reform...
Pike's testy confession of helplessness only served to intensify the growing backlash in Congress against his committee's six-month investigation of the CIA, FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Week after week, confidential information gathered by the committee's investigators had wound up on the front pages of U.S. newspapers. Last week the leaks turned into what outgoing CIA Director William Colby angrily called "the bursting of the dam." The committee's entire final report was given to newsmen. The leaked report contained little that had not been disclosed, and the revelations tended...
GEORGE ("End the War") McGOVERN, veteran: Has never recovered from the backlash of his $1000 a day salary demand of last season...
...Christian Democrats were on the verge of accepting the compromesso stbrico-"the historic compromise" in which the Communists would come into government as partners of the Christian Democrats. Meanwhile, Communist Party Boss Berlinguer thinks that a public embrace would be premature, and perhaps might invite a right-wing backlash...
...result of these and other frictions, Porter saw an American backlash developing-"the rise of adrenaline in the press and in Congress particularly. It worries me, because it is in the interest of both our countries to ease differences and difficulties." The ambassador suggested that Prime Minister Trudeau and President Gerald Ford, who enjoy cordial personal relations, might meet to help "clear...