Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Missing Papers. In his letter Jaworski hinted at another problem in gaining White House evidence. He noted that "we have reason to believe that there are additional documents somewhere in the White House files"-papers that Nixon's attorneys claim never existed. TIME has learned that some Watergate witnesses have described such documents and that they have disappeared from a vault in the Executive Office Building where they were stored...
...Labor candidate and Tory and Marxist contenders. Although her victory chances are small, Vanessa is emphasizing what she calls "the real issue" of the campaign-"the oppression of workers by the ruling classes." As yet, however, she has not officially agreed with her party leader Gerry Healy's claim that British airfields are now being converted into concentration camps...
Honeywell manufactures bombs used by the United States during the Vietnam War, and now sold to the Thieu regime. Company spokesmen claim that Honeywell is "a customer of the Defense Department," and that the implementation of their products is beyond the company's control. The protesters charge that Honeywell is an accomplice to genocide, and that its representatives are not welcome at Harvard...
Last week the S.L.A. sent out another communique boasting of a second major crime and backed up its claim with a persuasive piece of evidence. Enclosed in an S.L.A. message mailed to a Berkeley radio station was a Mobil Oil Co. credit card issued to Randolph A. Hearst, 58, chairman of the board of Hearst Corp. and the youngest son of Founder William Randolph Hearst. Sixty hours earlier Hearst's daughter Patricia, 19, a sophomore at the University of California at Berkeley, had been dragged screaming from her off-campus apartment and driven off by kidnapers...
What is wrong with Pompidou? The secret is locked away in the Elysee, which brusquely turns away all queries. Unofficially, however, spokesmen claim that he suffers from painful arthritis and that his puffy appearance is the result of massive doses of cortisone. Others outside the government speculate, however, that the real malady may be multiple myeloma, a disease of the bone marrow that can also be treated with cortisone...