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...America was faced with perhaps the gravest Constitutional crisis of the 20th century. A series of crimes had been committed by the Nixon Administration, including theft, illegal surveillance, and obstruction of justice. Nixon's own intransigence and "imperial" style of executive leadership did not help his public standing either. Also, the bitter memory of Vietnam was still fresh in the national conscience--Nixon's part in it aroused mixed, but generally hostile, feelings. In general, a mood of antagonism to the Presidency reached an unsurpassed high in 1973, and a major result of this was the War Powers Resolution...
...subject was how the U.S. should counter menacing Communist moves on a Caribbean island. The President's advisers were sorely perplexed: every idea they could think of posed the gravest dangers. But in the end they hit on a successful course of action, and a partial record of how it evolved came to light last week. Timed with inadvertent irony as American troops were invading Grenada, the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston released tapes and transcripts of two meetings between J.F.K. and his top aides at the start of the Cuban missile crisis 21 years...
...center, reversing both his onetime opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and his support for the death penalty. Also, like his opponent, he is an unbudging advocate of rent control. Flynn, a former probation officer, who was a star basketball player at Providence College, says that in Boston the gravest inequality is economic, not racial. Accordingly, he tries not to pander to conventional white prejudices. His mother and tubercular father were on the dole for several years, he says, and so loose talk about " 'welfare chiselers' and 'welfare cheats' makes my stomach turn...
Ironically, this policy of secrecy, which is supposed to protect the harasser, has backfired on several occasions. The fact that Professor Dominguez is back in the classroom this semester has been taken by many as an indication that Harvard does not take sexual harassment, of even the gravest sort, seriously. It is the great public outcry against Harvard's nonchalant attitude which is ultimately subjecting Professor Dominguez to the most grueling punishment of all--having to face the disapproval of his students and colleagues in the midst of widespread publicity...
...everyone else. The Rev. Ian Paisley, the militant Protestant leader, called for the resignation of Nicholas Scott, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Northern Ireland Office. Said British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in Ottawa at the start of a visit to Canada and the U.S.: "It is the gravest [breakout] in our present history, and there must be a very deep inquiry." An embarrassed James Prior, Britain's seasoned, avuncular Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, immediately announced a high-level inquiry headed by Sir James Hennessy, Britain's chief inspector of prisons...