Word: blunders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blunder that has haunted Anderson the most involved another marginal story. Shortly before Donald Rumsfeld left the Office of Economic Opportunity to become a Nixon adviser, Anderson obtained blueprints for a lavish renovation of the OEO chief's private office. Assured by his source that the work had been completed, Anderson ran a column accusing Rumsfeld of frittering away tax dollars while the poor languished. Actually, no alteration had been started. Admits Anderson: "I had the poverty czar living in luxury. It was a terrible error-the worst mistake I ever made...
...prospects for the Asian collective-security system that Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev has proposed: "I am afraid it would not be very effective as long as there is such a state of enmity and tension between the U.S.S.R. and China." He stressed that it would be a "great blunder" for Japan to use Sino-Soviet enmity as a "trick to improve our relations with China...
...code of moral behavior, cleanliness and shore-like routine that includes a required Protestant religious service each Sunday on the aft deck. In addition, he places himself above the crew; on one occasion he avails himself of three showers a day during a fresh water shortage (created by a blunder on his part), while the 149-man crew is limited to a two-hour daily shower period...
Boycotts. The pressures on Heath are clearly rising. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson now believes that reunification of the two Irelands is inevitable. He has branded the Tory government's internment policy a blunder, and has called on the government either to bring to trial the 760 suspected subversives now under detention or to release them. "Internment," he charged, "has proved to be a recruiting sergeant for the I.R.A...
...suppliers. "These are the same sources who have been giving me access to classified material for some time," he says. "The difference is that until now they have been very wary of letting me quote directly. But they became gravely concerned about what seemed to them a colossal moral blunder in the India-Pakistan situation." There is suspicion that the leak happened in the Defense Department. Anderson says that his sources at first would tell him only the general content of the documents, then consented to let him quote from them. When he insisted, "I must document this; you have...