Word: capitulationism
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Last week, at the prodding of Arab diplomats who said bluntly that Europe had to "tilt" its Middle East policies in favor of the Arabs, foreign ministers of the nine-member European Common Market shucked their threadbare cloaks of neutrality. They jointly called on Israel to accept a settlement agreeable...
In fact, Jaworski is getting no more freedom of action than Cox was originally promised, although he did receive stronger safeguards of job security. If necessary, Jaworski can go to court to get tapes or other presidential materials; it was the President's efforts to deny Cox this right...
When she tried to find a modeling agency to handle her, they all turned her down. Finally, in 1966, she found one taker, the Ford Agency, which happened to be the best in town. "Eileen Ford said she'd hire me if I got my teeth and nose fixed...
When they learned of the students' plans, NIH officials offered to meet with them instead, and the result of the parley was total capitulation. Apparently deciding that public attitudes are unalterably opposed to experimentation, the NIH declared emphatically that it "does not now support research on live aborted human...
The complete reversal by Nixon amounted to almost total capitulation to Ervin's insistence that no presidential aide is entitled to blanket immunity from congressional inquiry into wrongdoing. But the matter could become academic, at least for a while. Ervin conceded that if key witnesses are