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...former Secretary of Agriculture, who is now senior apostle and head of the council, has flustered many Mormons with his abrasive public utterances, some of them to John Birch Society audiences. His benediction at the funeral of President McKay was so heavy with right-wing political overtones as to embarrass even the conservative Mormon hierarchy. Now the divisive Benson is next in the wings, as amiable President Kimball begins his regime...
...Patrick's Day Riot in 1972 first put Walpole in the news and established Boone's opposition. In an attempt to embarrass Boone's administration, the guards left the prison and then claimed that there was a race riot inside. Boone told newsmen that Walpole did not have a race riot but a guard-instigated riot. He proved this by showing that although the prisoners had done $1 million of material damage, not one prisoner was hurt...
Some Arab and Western leaders conclude that the terrorists were trying both to sabotage the Geneva conference and to embarrass the Arab "establishment," which includes Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein. The latest hijacking was one of several that have coincided lately with international meetings among Arab government leaders and others who might find a formula for peace. On the opening day of the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in Algiers last September, Black September gunmen attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Paris, took Saudi hostages, and finally surrendered in Kuwait...
...question out of the way before the congressional election campaign begins in earnest. He said that if the issue is not resolved by April, "then you can say it is partisan." Indeed, some Democrats would like to have the committee's proceedings drag on into the year to embarrass the G.O.P...
...public worry in the opinion samplings is another of those "petty" episodes that the men in the White House swat as if they were mere flies. Nixon went into a meeting with 16 Governors and told them he knew of no other Watergate developments that would embarrass them. The next day it was revealed that one of the tapes had a more than 18-minute gap and Nixon had known about it. The man who is "somebody very close" had deceived not just 16 Governors but also millions and millions of his people...