Word: filed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could file a motion with Federal Judge John J. Sirica, who supervises all three of the Watergate grand juries, asking him to order that all the evidence be given to the impeachment inquiry once the grand juries have reported their indictments. If Sirica were to issue such an order, only fast White House action in a higher court could possibly prevent its execution...
...most part, newsmen stationed in Hong Kong-with easier access to seasoned China experts as well as Chinese returning from mainland visits-tend to file more knowing reports on politicking within China's hierarchy. Hong Kong-based reporters dismiss the Peking corps' output as mainly "sights, sounds and smells." Yet, as Burns points out, there is a wide market for atmospheric human-interest tales. Thus Burns recently filed a poignant portrait of an elderly White Russian émigré in the remote northern city of Harbin. Last spring he ran in Peking's annual seven-mile "round...
...down to Hong Kong to mingle with the community of professional China watchers there. The most limited correspondents of all are the Japanese, who operate under rigid self-censorship. When the Japanese were re-admitted following the Cultural Revolution, the major Tokyo papers agreed that their reporters would not file "hostile" stories. The result has been uniformly bland coverage...
Their seemingly lost cause revived in 1970 when a researcher discovered that there was a Lee loyalty oath, after all, buried among State Department records in a file at the National Archives...
Instead, Solzhenitsyn was drafted into the Red Army in 1941. After that, he confesses, he acquired the habits of the Soviet elite: "I ate my officer's butter with pastry, without giving a thought to why I had a right to it, while rank and file soldiers did not... This is what happens when you put epaulets on people's shoulders; they begin to feel like little gods." Rising to the rank of artillery captain, Solzhenitsyn was decorated several times for bravery while serving on three fighting fronts. Then, in the midst of a battle in 1945, he was arrested...