Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aplomb as a partner in the prestigious Boston firm of Hale and Dorr. Thus when White House Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig began looking late last year for a trial lawyer to represent the President, he found that "Jim was high on everybody's list." On Dec. 31 St. Clair resigned the private practice that earned him about $300,000 a year in order to take the $42,500 federally paid job as Nixon's chief Watergate counsel. In action around the White House, St. Clair has struck Haig as "crisp and buttoned-down, but thoughtful...
...earned Exxon the unenviable distinction of having forked over what is probably the highest ransom ever collected by kidnapers. (How much, if any, is covered by insurance [TIME, March 18] is unknown.) The company sought the release of Victor E. Samuelson, 36, a refinery manager who was abducted on Dec. 6. At week's end Samuelson still had not been set free, but the ransom may have saved his life: the kidnapers had earlier notified Exxon that they had sentenced him to death for the "crimes" of multinational corporations...
...dove-self won out, although he maintained an unshakable dislike of communism. Nixon's promises to end the war did not restore Reston's lost faith in America's Vietnam policy. When Nixon carpet-bombed North Vietnam at Christmas 1972, Reston wrote, "This is war by tantrum" (column, Dec. 26, 1972). In a news analysis written the day after the cease-fire agreement on Jan. 23, 1973, Reston again lamented the loss of America's innocence. "The guess here is that it will take some time to restore the self-confidence of the pre-Vietnam years...
...Dec. 20, 1973 report, the staff of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation states that it found no evidence of unfair treatment of taxpayers by the Internal Revenue Service because of political views or activities...
...Your article "Murder of the Alter Ego," about the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco [Dec. 31], concludes with the statement: "The aging Franco had only two choices-to liberalize his regime or face the threat of having his country racked by more violence...