Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solemn assurances have a way of evaporating under pressure in Richard Nixon's White House, as Prosecutor Jaworski discovered to his dismay last week. With Nixon pursuing yet another twist in his survival strategy;this time one of delay and resistance to continuing demands for Watergate evidence -a new clash loomed between President and prosecutor. Echoing Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor Nixon had fired last October for refusing to desist from pursuing presidential evidence, Jaworski said that he will not hesitate to go into court to get whatever White House documents and tapes he considers vital to his investigation...
...mine union governing council's twenty-seven members are communists. But communists do not have numerical control of the union and the strike has the explicit support of most of the non-communist members of the governing council. When Heath requested that the miners delay the strike until after the parliamentary elections, the council voted 20 to 6 to reject Heath's proposal...
That provision was opposed not only by oil-state Senators like Louisiana's Russell Long but also by many liberals who considered the plan unworkable. The environmentalists, led by Wisconsin Democrat Gay lord Nelson, were aghast at another provision that would have delayed until 1979 the imposition of "clean air" standards for factories and power plants that are shifting from oil to coal. All sides felt freer to drop or at least delay the bill because of the easing of oil supplies. Said Nelson: "We are not in an emergency situation right...
...Travel by jet. Had the trip between Aswan and Tel Aviv been in a prop plane (five hours) instead of a jet (two hours) the chances for misgiving and delay would have risen...
Kissinger failed in one effort in the Middle East. He had wanted to be airborne when the treaty was signed at Kilometer 101 so that he would not be physically in either country and open to charges of favoritism (like the raft in midstream at Tilsit?). But a delay in the signing made it impossible; he was with Sadat. Successful or not, it was the kind of personal touch that has helped Henry Kissinger to stand out in these dark times...