Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, Nixon has never seen this transcript. (After the session, he asked his aides: "What was that tape? I'm sure I never heard that tape before. Find out about that tape." They immediately tried to locate a transcript in Washington.) The two Colson tapes, of course, contradict Nixon's assertion that he first learned of the cover-up on March 21. They unsettle Nixon...
Frost barks out quote after quote. Finally Nixon has heard enough. "Let me, let me just stop you right there," he interrupts. "Right there...
...describes Kissinger as brilliant but a bit immature, overly concerned about potential power rivals like Texan John Connally, too intrigued by Hollywood and other show-business celebrities. Nixon claims he was not bothered by some indiscreet criticism from Henry. "An odd man ... unpleasant ... very artificial," Kissinger was once heard to say about Nixon at a dinner in Ottawa when he was unaware that his table microphone was on. Nixon tells Frost with good humor: "He didn't remember to turn off the microphone, but on the other hand, I didn't turn it off in the Oval Office either...
Overkill. Ulrike Meinhof hanged herself in her prison cell in 1976. Holger Meins, another defendant, had died before the trial began following a hunger strike. But Andreas Baader and his two remaining confederates, after a nearly two-year trial, finally heard judgment pronounced last week in Stuttgart. Baader, now 33, Gudrun Ensslin, 36, and Jan-Carl Raspe, 32, were found guilty of murder and were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years-a judicial tactic to minimize the possibility of parole...
...battle were drawn last week as advocates from both sides converged on Washington for hearings on legislation to turn 45.6 million hectares (114 million acres) of federally owned lands-some 30% of Alaska's total area-into protected parklands. The first rumblings of the Alaska land war were heard in 1959, when the vast territory became a state. The Statehood Act allowed the state to select 41.6 million hectares (104 million acres) of Alaska's 150 million hectares (375 million acres) -an area the size of New England, New York and Pennsylvania-for economic development, but it ignored...