Word: highhandedness
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U.S. Ambassador Anthony D. Marshall has protested the highhanded treatment of the two Americans. Meanwhile, Saul and Miller are suing in Kenyan courts for recovery of their ruby mine. Few, however, believe that the case will be decided in the Americans' favor. Kenya is sticking to its claim that...
Henry Kissinger wants to link future negotiations about the U.S. military presence in Europe to trade concessions. But in the current atmosphere of waning confidence, Europeans are increasingly resisting, suspicious and overly sensitive to the slightest nudging by Washington. TIME Correspondent David Tinnin reports that Kissinger's unkindest critics...
Much of this drift can be laid to the relative disarray in the White House, which was formerly run with the highhanded authoritarianism of a Prussian drill field by the President's two top aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
Who was responsible for the murder? Guinean President Sékou Touré, an ostensible friend who had allowed Cabral to make his headquarters in Conakry, initially blamed "hired murderers and mercenaries in the service of Portuguese colonialism." But Lisbon's denials ("We would rather face Cabral than anyone...
Stalled. Nor are the judges being highhanded. The new law has been invoked by busing foes to block orders that courts have determined are constitutionally required. Attorney James M. Nabrit of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund observes that "it's conventional for a judge faced with a statute of...