Word: breaking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...natural product of the double standard applied by the press and politicians in judging Richard Nixon, Price says. If the Democrats had been caught bugging Republican National Committee Headquarters in 1964, "I don't think it particularly would have been news." In those June days following the Watergate break-in, Nixon's top aides informed him that John Mitchell--his close friend, former U.S. Attorney General and then re-election campaign director--probably had prior knowledge of the break-in plan and Nixon asked the CIA to head off the FBI's investigation of the incident. In so doing, Price...
...national environment, the final "smoking gun" of August, 1974--the revelation that Nixon had been aware of former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell's probable involvement in Watergate from the start, and had ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to head off the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation of the break-in for political reasons--would not have been considered an offense that necessitated the removal of a president. Only with a multitude of allegations--many of spurious--being pounded into the public consciousness over a two-year period did Nixon's position finally become untenable, Price argues...
...little to bolster Nixon's defense. It is all too easy to forget, in reading Price's attack, that the two years of national hysteria over Watergate misdeeds, real or imagined, would not have occurred if Nixon had not initiated the coverup in the days following the June 1972 break-in. Moreover it is certainly inadequate to argue that Nixon's actions of June 23, 1972 represented the president's sole obstruction of justice. His actions for more than two years following those June days constituted one ongoing obstruction of justice, as Nixon and company continued the coverup, and finally...
Increasingly impatient with the slow progress of the U.S. initiative, Sadat began to think more and more about bold ways to break the stalemate. "The Arab-Israeli conflict," he told the U.S. Congressmen, "contains 70% psychological problems and 30% substance." What Sadat wanted was a move so dramatic that it would both shock and inspire the other parties involved to return to the path of negotiations. That could be only one thing, he eventually decided: speaking over the heads of the Israeli leaders to their people about peace, and doing so in front of their own parliament...
...break was all but inevitable in view of the massive support that Moscow and Havana have been sending to Ethiopia, the Somalis' enemy. The Somalis had known for at least three years that the Kremlin, for all its protestations of good intentions toward Somalia, was forging new ties with Addis Ababa. Then war broke out in Ethiopia's Ogaden desert last July between Ethiopian forces and the ethnic Somalis who live there; the insurgents are backed and armed by Mogadishu. After that, the Somalis quickly realized that, as one official puts it, "our brothers were being killed...