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...failed to keep the tapes from the Watergate probers, and in 1977 he had unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the Presidential Recordings Act. Still, the battle for the tapes is far from over. The GSA's attempts to set rules for public access promise to bog down in further litigation. Only one thing is for sure: no Nixon recordings are likely to be seen rising on the pop charts any time soon...
...little. He failed to concentrate on a few key issues such as energy and the Panama Canal treaty, and thus dissipated much of his influence. He did not build the necessary crucial bridges to Capitol Hill; nor did he have the experienced staff to help. He often seemed to bog down in detail and yet to slight the routine requirements of the job, such as sometimes twisting congressional arms. He has not demonstrated quite the same ardor in the presidency that he did in the campaign...
...fiery daughter Sara (Kathryn Walker) has a wealthy young Yankee in tow, and when it comes out that the boy's father wants no truck with the peat-bog Melodys, Con rides swaggeringly forth to avenge such an insult by issuing a dueling challenge. Terribly beaten by the police, Con stumbles home in a state of catatonic silence, all the posturing and pride of him. This time he goes forth only to kill the last emblem of his dream, his blooded mare, his Byronic self...
...ever-flowing rain of the past two weeks may have reduced Soldiers Field to a marshy bog, but it did not dampen Mleczko or the Crimson women. In a hard-hitting battle highlighted by Harvard's superb ball control, the women displayed much of the skill that earned them a 12-1-1 record...
...vote of confidence in the Bundestag in early fall. According to this scenario, Schmidt would lose and call for a new national election, which the opposition Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union alliance would almost certainly win. The reasoning behind this strategy: the new government would bog down in the economic and social difficulties facing the country, and thereby prepare the way for a revamped and refreshed S.P.D. to win a clear majority in the 1981 election, without the need for an alliance with the more conservative Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.). "It sounds weird that Schmidt would even think...