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...seize on a new crisis in the Middle East to claim his indispensability and strength, but such was the low state of his credibility that an emotional and unfortunate controversy erupted over whether he had ordered a global alert of all U.S. military units at least in part to divert attention from his own grave problems...
Participation by Harvard students in the petition drive is vitally important, Diane Cohn, a second-year law student, said yesterday. "We need to impress upon O'Neill that his constituency is still concerned about the issues. The president did not divert the issues by releasing the tapes...
...Lots more work will have to be done to divert the rivers of blood," cautions Joseph A. Hunte, former secretary of the West Indian Standing Conference, a vocal but moderate civil rights group. It may already be too late, however, to heal relationships between white Britain and its half-million black residents, who live mainly in the nation's large cities...
...many Congressmen and political observers were questioning to what extent the Middle East "crisis" cited by Nixon was real, and what proportion represented White House machinations to divert public attention from Watergate...
Agnew's crimes will divert attention from the Watergate affair, and in Seymour M. Lipset's words, "This, combined with the Mideast war, will go a long way to taking Nixon off the hook." Number two's resignation probably forecloses the possibility of impeachment proceedings against Number...