Word: dispell
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...effort to dispel that cloud the House last week voted 407 to 1 to authorize a wide-ranging investigation of both the sex and drug allegations. The committee will question witnesses and review reports from the FBI and Justice Department. Shortly before a picture-taking session, reporters heard Staff Director John Swanner telling Committee Chairman Louis Stokes, an Ohio Democrat: "In two weeks' time, we should be able to finish this up." Swanner added: "Show me 10,000 ministers and I'll show you some drugs and homosexuals. People really have a taste for morbidity. This kind...
...moment when President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig were on a European tour that was intended to burnish the Administration's image abroad. Even the cease-fire that took effect at week's end, with the help of considerable U.S. prodding, did little to dispel doubts about U.S. effectiveness in an important and volatile area...
...part of this effort, the White House views the trip as a major opportunity for the President, whose most important political asset is his infectious personal charm, to dispel a still prevalent impression in Europe that the leadership of the Western alliance is in the uncertain hands of a trigger-happy cowboy. A growing mood of pacifism on the Continent, suffused with latent anti-Americanism and guided in part by leftist forces, threatens NATO's plan to modernize its nuclear forces. The President will attempt to counter this attitude in a series of interviews with European newspapers and television...
...Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, who traveled to Europe twice this spring to make the logistical arrangements for the tour: "We knew it offered fine opportunities for the President, if we managed to set it up right." Indeed, the trip is part of a shrewdly orchestrated campaign to dispel criticism that Reagan has failed to involve himself personally in the development of a coherent foreign policy. It began in earnest with Reagan's proposal last April for a summit meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and his speech at Illinois' Eureka College-his alma mater-outlining proposals...
...chief law enforcement officer requires an Attorney General to do whatever is necessary to avoid even an inaccurate appearance of impropriety." Therefore, he said, he had returned the "severance" payment and would limit his tax deductions to the actual amount of his investments. This, he said, should "dispel all of the concerns raised in the press." At the same time, a new financial statement made by Smith showed that he had invested a previously undisclosed $25,800 in a third tax shelter that might have produced a deduction...