Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more significant queries for Nixon raised by the Dean testimony are these: Did he discuss Executive clemency with Ehrlichman and Colson, as Dean claims? Did he congratulate Dean on helping to limit the Watergate indictments? Did he scoff at the $1,000,000 in payoff money, as the White House claims? Is there a tape, as Dean suspected, of the meeting in which Nixon claimed to have been joking about the $1,000,000 in silence money...
Shortly after the last session, Dean sank into an easy chair, Maureen near him. He agreed to discuss the personal aspects of his week that was with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, who had followed him to his home. The cool, meticulous and rather scholarly-looking Dean of the hearings seemed to fade away, as did (at least in his own mind) the earlier Dean, deeply involved in the illegal and unsavory acts. A third Dean emerged, still pleading his case but giving a strangely sentimental picture of his life...
...plans call for the security conference to complete two stages before a jumbo summit would be possible. The first stage, the convocation of the foreign ministers, may last only a few days. Essentially, it will give each minister a chance to make a speech on general principles and to discuss the proposed agenda for Stage 2. As a result of some adroit maneuvering by the Russians, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will lead off the ministerial round of speeches. U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers will be one of the last speakers...
Amnesty International contends that some governments not only practice torture but indirectly admit it to intimidate other dissenters. Margaret Papandreou (wife of the former Greek Cabinet minister) charges that Greece's military government "wants people to know that it is torturing prisoners"-although it imprisons those who dare discuss the matter openly...
Kennedy obviously feared that mention of the war would open the question of his own patriotism, a very open question in Decatur, Alabama. As long as northern politicans are afraid to discuss in the South what is on every tongue in their home states, talk of national unity will remain essentially empty...