Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their bosses caution Exxon men to treat all governments alike: maintain friendly and correct relations, but never get too close or become too hostile...
Those who take a restricted view of the Constitution's language on impeachment question whether there is sufficient cause for taking any action against the President at present. They do not deny or underestimate the scope and extent of Watergate crimes, but they would proceed with all due caution. Louis H. Pollak, a Yale law professor, feels that Nixon should not be impeached unless there is evidence of his actual involvement in illegal activities such as the Watergate cover-up or the plumbers' burglary. In other words, the President must be shown to be guilty of a crime...
...years in prison. Even foreign reporters were warned to be careful about what they wrote; Japanese correspondents were summoned to the Information Office and given a stern dressing down on past dispatches discrediting Park's authoritarian regime. To underline the threat, the Japanese ambassador was told to caution his country's reporters about Park's new dos and don'ts. South Korea's Central Intelligence Agency (secret police) was given power to investigate the constitution's critics, and army generals were appointed to head the courts-martial that would try offenders. The national police...
Much of the caution stems from a recognition that something momentous happened last year: after a long period of almost splendid isolation, the U.S. economy joined the rest of the world. As a result, the nation had to cope with events over which it had only partial control...
Kissinger still takes time to trade quips with the press on his tours. The smiles and the charm are there, but there is a new caution, an extra moment of thought before he delivers his carefully phrased answers. There is less time for sleep (five hours a night) and more demands for him to fulfill the protocol role of office. The playboy of the West Wing has become the serious statesman...