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Shifting stance once again, the President dropped into a fighting crouch, dukes-up on Watergate and the threat of impeachment. Conciliation having failed in Operation Candor, he and his defenders took the offensive, carrying out that pugnacious vow made last week at a private White House meeting with a group of Republican Congressmen. The themes were clear: he was innocent; he would never resign; he would resist impeachment as a narrow partisan political attack on him. And he got some help when Egil Krogh Jr. contended that the President was not responsible for one burglary carried out by the White...
...first sign of trouble, Captain Andrew Erbeck told the passengers to crouch on the floor. Before he could order the 707's doors closed, a clean-shaven young man in a white sweater ran to the foot of the steps, a canister in his outstretched hand. "They're coming with grenades!" First Officer Robert Davison shouted. "Get the people out of here!" It was too late...
Even some conservative members of Heath's own party were critical. Declared Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, a Tory M.P.: "This bonehead government has driven the union moderates into the militant camp. It now will cost much more to get the miners back to work." Understated David Crouch, also a Conservative M.P.: "I don't believe that this confrontation [with the miners] is desirable...
...Crouch, like a growing number of other observers, fears that the Prime Minister's militant attitude could touch off class strife in Britain's stratified society. Britons have generally sympathized with the miners' plight, but there is growing resentment against them over the coal shortage that they have caused by their month-long work slowdown...
Tallo's armored columns swept into the Egyptian position under the cover of an artillery barrage. He pushed me down inside the APC as the incoming thickened, but he remained exposed in a half-crouch on top of the vehicle. We blasted our way through a series of missile bases that were heavily bunkered but largely deserted. The few stragglers were cut down by .50-cal. machine-gun fire...