Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy alone). Indeed, counterforce looks less like a fundamental change in American nuclear strategy than a forceful way of telling the Soviets that the U.S. is willing to continue the arms race if agreement on limiting nuclear weapons is not reached at SALT II. In the blunt words of a Schlesinger adviser on nuclear strategy, M.I.T. Professor William W. Kaufmann: "We will match them...
...measures were a gauge of the Kremlin's dismay over the extent of Western press coverage of Gulag since its publication in Paris last December. In an effort to blunt the effect abroad of the book's disclosures of Communist repression, Soviet news stories sent round the world portrayed the author as an opponent of detente, allied with "hawks, Maoists and the followers of Hitler." At home, newspapers, periodicals, radio and TV continued to assault Solzhenitsyn with such epithets as "traitor," "blasphemer," "renegade," "fascist," "counterrevolutionary" and "enemy of the people." Party activists and policemen were out scouring factories...
Died. Murray M. Chotiner, 64, longtime adviser to Richard Nixon; of a blood clot resulting from an auto accident; in Washington, B.C. Alternately good-natured and blunt, Chotiner was a sharp Los Angeles criminal lawyer and a cunning, bare-knuckled politician who first met Nixon during the 1946 congressional campaign and advised him to depict his opponent, Jerry Voorhis, as an ally of Communism. Chotiner planned a similar strategy for Nixon's 1950 Senate race against Helen Gahagan Douglas. Chotiner advised Nixon at the time of his famous "Checkers" speech in 1952, but their relationship was temporarily dissolved...
...Whitlam, 57, had not been caught in flagrante delicto; rather his wife Margaret, 54, was being heckled about her latest job. A trained social worker, Margaret Whitlam is a director of the Commonwealth Hostels Ltd., an organization that administers government housing. "Drop it, Meg," was the Herald's blunt advice. But Mrs. Whitlam, whose liberal views on abortion, sex and marijuana have shocked Australians in the past, held on. "I've subjugated myself for an entire year," she said, adding that even official trips were a bore. "Your visit as a Prime Minister's wife so often...
...made until June of 1971. The paper confirmed that Nixon had called Richard Kleindienst, then Deputy Attorney General, and ordered him to forgo an appeal on one of the suits against ITT. Such a move was sought by the corporation. The paper did not, however, note Nixon's blunt language in directing Kleindienst. "You son of a bitch, can't you understand the English language?" That was Nixon's comment when Kleindienst had refused to comply with a telephoned demand by Ehrlichman that he drop the appeal...