Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only have Americans fomented economic repression in Greece, but they have imported repressive instruments of a more disturbing nature as well. Reports leaked from political prisoners claim that bicycles, patrol wagons, iron wreaths used to squeeze skulls, wire whips, and blankets at the camps are marked "made...
...revolutionary iceberg hit Portugal last week--and though Marcello Caetano's dictatorship could still claim control at week's end, it could do so only by ignoring the nine-tenths that remained submerged...
There is also a problem with Nixon's claim that, having learned of these illegal cover-up activities from Dean on March 21, he then convened a meeting the next day at which he urged his top aides "to get the story out." That meeting was attended by Nixon, Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Dean. According to the Senate testimonies of the last four, the President made no attempt at all at that meeting even to quiz them on whether Dean's allegations of their individual involvement in the cover-up were true. No one testified that Nixon...
DiCara's mind--his chief political asset--works quickly to generate a congenial atmosphere in any meeting. One can almost hear the clicking as his mind makes up a new dossier on an acquaintance or hunts for an old one amid stacks of past encounters. Friends of DiCara claim that his mental vault holds the names, addresses and occupations of at least 7000 to 8000 people in the Boston area. "People tell me I know a lot of people," DiCara says. "I suppose it's one of those traits of personality that I know so many people...
...councilman claims that he qualified his pledge to Boston '73 a few weeks after making the promise. DiCara also disputes the claim that he switched his vote as a political concession to Mayor Kevin White, a chief proponent of the Park Plaza project...