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...They clamor for integration and school reforms--but you won't find a low income housing project where they live," he said...
...clamor reached such a point that Nixon Spokesman Warren was forced to assert that no one in the White House was trying to push Agnew to resign. Indeed, it could be argued that while Nixon might very well like to be rid of the Agnew problem, it was by no means certain that he wanted to get rid of Agnew. Dumping the Vice President simply made no political sense, Nixon aides kept insisting. After all, the President had twice picked Agnew as his running mate. Said one aide: "Let's face it; if Agnew goes down the tube, that...
...efforts were encouraged by a succession of five military and three civilian governments that stumbled and fell from power. With the failure of each new government, the people were reminded that there was always another alternative: Perón. Last year, amid increasing terrorism and public clamor, the military government of Alejandro Lanusse decided to allow free elections. Lanusse, a general who had once been imprisoned by Perón, challenged the old caudillo to return and run for President...
...said Dean, Nixon did not seem to understand, and set up a meeting of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean. The hope was that Mitchell would take the blame for the Watergate wiretapping and that the public would then be satisfied and stop the clamor over the coverup. (At the meeting the next day, Mitchell made no effort to do this, and nothing was decided.) MARCH 21, 1973 (AFTERNOON). At a second meeting with the President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman provided another "tremendous disappointment" for Dean. "It was quite clear that the cover-up as far as the White House was concerned...
...South Africa have been under an unrelenting hailstorm of criticism from civil rights groups, labor unions, churchmen and Congressmen. Some critics have pressed the companies to pull out of the apartheid state altogether; others insist that they should remain and improve the lot of their nonwhite workers. Apparently the clamor has penetrated some important board rooms. At least 18 blue-chip corporations have sharply raised wages, fringe benefits and educational opportunities for black South Africans. And they accomplished these improvements with surprisingly little flak from the nation's segregationist establishment...