Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flanagan said that failure to appoint a new justice and his own plans for March could delay the proceedings...
...plotters against Diem, but then changed course. On Oct. 30, 1963, just before the coup, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge cabled Washington that he was unable to halt it. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense William Bundy cabled back from Washington: WE CANNOT ACCEPT CONCLUSION THAT WE HAVE NO POWER TO DELAY OR DISCOURAGE A COUP. Three days later, Diem was murdered...
...number has gradually been reduced to an average of 1,000 a month this year. Those who apply for exit permits are subject to increasing harassment. An applicant can expect immediate discharge from his job, while facing a probable turndown or, at best, many months of delay before leaving. These people depend heavily on donations from relatives and friends abroad to survive. Gifts of money are already subject to an exorbitant 65% tax. But on Jan. 1, a new regulation will end completely the transfer of the dollar gift vouchers that have been redeemable in food and clothing...
...Douglas managed to stay less than two hours. That night he told his wife that he would resign. "It was his decision and his alone," Mrs. Douglas reported. His colleagues on the court had never raised the issue. But he knew that they had determined to delay deciding any case in which his vote would be the tiebreaker. Once the court's most prolific opinion writer, he also knew, as he said in his letter to the President, that he was now "unable to shoulder my full share of the burden...
...would be more favorable for the U.S. than negotiating one with a new government. But when Kissinger initialed a framework agreement for military bases in Spain early in October he indicated that he wanted the Senate to confirm it--at least in resolution form. This seems to be a delay tactic; Kissinger probably wants to wait until after the shift of power. And sizing up the nature of this shift seems to have been the reason for Ford's visit to Madrid, where he reportedly spent more time with Prince Juan Carlos than with El Caudillo...