Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seal Harbor, he awaited news of his political fate with equanimity. "It makes no difference to me whichever way it breaks," he told friends as Ford pondered his choice. "If the call comes, fine. I'll do my best. If it doesn't, so be it." When the call came, he became "very thoughtful," says Hugh Morrow. "I've got to tell Happy," Rocky said somberly as he wandered off to a pine grove where his wife was walking her dog. Exactly how she responded is not known, but probably with, at best, muted enthusiasm: Happy...
...Cypriots who decide the fate of Cyprus. It's the Turks and the Greeks, and all the rest is blah-blah. [Greek Cypriot deposed President] Makarios is still around, and he could have blocked a deal between Clerides and [Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf] Denktas, and we would be back where we started. Clerides and Denktas have been talking for six years, and Makarios always blocked any plan for the advancement of the Turkish Cypriot community...
There can hardly have been two distant cities whose fate was, for good and ill, more intimately linked than Venice and Constantinople. Soon after the Emperor Constantino the Great established his new Christian Rome by the Bosporus in 334 A.D., Constantinople, the fabled golden city of Byzantium, became the matrix of European civilization. During Constantinople's rise, Rome was a tract of ruins and Venice only a cluster of wattle huts on a lagoon mudbank...
There were, of course, useful accidents of fate and generous helpings of blind luck. A night watchman named Frank Wills came upon the Watergate burglars one night when they taped some door locks with an almost ostentatious incompetence. The system was fortunate that Judge John Sirica pursued the case. And above all that Richard Nixon was surreptitiously taping his own conversations; and that he somehow never thought, or considered it necessary, or perhaps just did not dare, to heave all the tapes into the White House incinerator after their existence became known. Had it not been for the tapes, Richard...
...stay at State was particularly reassuring to Peking; the Chinese had been concerned about the effects of Watergate on the relationship that is one of their safeguards against aggression by the Soviet Union. But the Ford Administration now must wait out a mini-Cultural Revolution and the uncertain fate of Premier Chou En-lai before it can tell what to negotiate next-and with whom...