Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspicion of leading a conspiracy to cover up White House involvement in the Watergate wiretapping. Controlled a $350,000 cash fund from campaign contributions that apparently was used to pay the arrested wiretappers to keep them quiet. Head of a broad political-sabotage campaign to hurt the candidacy of Democrat Edmund Muskie and promote that of George McGovern. Admits heading a political intelligence-gathering operation during the campaign, but denies that it included illegal activity. Many of the other implicated men-including John Dean, Jeb Magruder, Gordon Strachan and Dwight Chapin-reported...
...withholding aid to Hanoi, but many were angry about the continued U.S. bombing in Cambodia. When Secretary of State William Rogers appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend the Administration's bombing campaign in Cambodia, he was greeted by a storm of opposition. The bombing, declared Democrat Edmund Muskie of Maine, "is without justification in policy, in the Constitution or in the law." Demanded New York Republican Jacob Javits: "Is this a commitment forever? When does...
Some Germans dismiss the Communist youth movement, perhaps too lightly, as "middle class." Says one Social Democrat: "They talk revolution and spend their vacations in Spain and Greece, rather than their beloved East Germany. It is all sheer nonsense." But the radicals' demands are serious enough: the ouster of U.S. forces and a drastic reduction of West Germany's defense budget. Beyond these goals, the left seems to be aiming for an eventual reunification of the two Germanys in which socialism would be triumphant...
There was a rising clamor within the Justice Department itself for Petersen, at least, to remove himself from the case, as Attorney General Richard Kleindienst had done. A Democrat and former FBI clerk, Petersen shifted to the Justice Department in 1951 and rose steadily, especially under the more recent direction of former Attorney General John Mitchell...
...rival Lindsay, as well as extend his iron-hand control of the state into the city. Rose wanted to preserve Liberal influence at City Hall by making the next mayor beholden to him. Both Rockefeller and Rose wanted to stop the growing momentum of Congressman Mario Biaggi, a conservative Democrat who was also the most decorated policeman in New York history...