Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President was told by Dean on March 17 about the burglary of a Los Angeles psychiatrist's office to seek information about Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. This was more than a month before the Administration informed the judge in the trial about it. The White House-ordered bag job contributed to dismissal of the case. Nixon had implied in a May 22 statement that he learned of this burglary on April 25 and then had "immediately" informed the court...
Somewhere in the South Pacific last week, united in a quixotic cause, were a former French army general, a New Zealand service station owner, a former Australian paper bag manufacturer, a young American couple and a New Zealand woman six months pregnant. They and a dozen or so companions were heading for the lonely atoll of Mururoa, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti and 530 miles northwest of rocky Pitcairn Island. Their mission: to force the French government to abandon plans to explode a series of nuclear devices in the area...
...public since the cultural revolution. Heads snapped, therefore, when Chiang Ching, who is also Mrs. Mao Tse-tung and No. 3 in the Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next to American Envoy David Bruce, had scored the most points...
...crumbling protection, Whittier has been forced to abandon his accustomed game plan. As he scrambles around in his own backfield, he's had to make some hasty improvisations in his offensive stance. And as each play brings the eager tacklers closer, Whittier digs deeper and deeper into his bag of trick plays in an attempt to elude the pursuit. But Whittier, as crafty a veteran as he is, is running out of tricks...
...blame Krogh, rather than Ehrlichman, for the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. The job was managed by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy under Krogh's direction. At the same time, Nixon seems to excuse Krogh for an overreaction. But would a President who had approved bag jobs before really disapprove of this...