Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, some of the more intimate vignettes of the final hours of the Nixon presidency continued to emerge in Washington as the participants compared notes. A poignant one concerned Nixon's farewell meeting with 46 invited friends from Congress, just one hour before he announced his resignation in a televised address from the Oval Office. At the meeting, Richard Nixon was on the verge of emotional collapse. He noted that it would be his last meeting in the Cabinet Room-and then he laughed loudly and incongruously...
...newest Turkish violation of the cease-fire on Cyprus began at dawn Wednesday, less than an hour after the breakdown of peace talks in Geneva. Günes telephoned Premier Bülent Ecevit in Ankara to report that Greece would not accede to Turkish demands that the island be partitioned into Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones, and that the talks were fruitless. Almost immediately Radio Ankara signaled the code words: "TYK in Force," meaning start the assault. Within minutes, Turkish jets were over Famagusta and Nicosia, making passes in Nicosia's International Airport area and dive-bombing...
...Greeks wanted to bite anyone-anyone besides Turkey, that is-it was the U.S., which, in Athens' view, had betrayed it in its most desperate hour. The decision to withdraw Greek military forces from NATO, a move specifically directed against Washington as the leader of the alliance, was immensely and immediately popular in Greece, and served as something of a diversion to Greek humiliation at the hands of Turkey. Almost everywhere throughout the country a virulent anti-American mood was evident. Several hundred people demonstrated against the U.S. in downtown Athens, police were called in to guard the American...
...didn't you give the Greeks and Greek Cypriots the 36-hour recess they requested before ending the talks...
...croupier in one of the casinos. He went into a gas station rest room, changed from his wrinkled shirt and stained Levis into a nice fresh outfit, and while I wandered through the downtown streets, he went into two or three places to talk with the managers. About an hour later, as we had arranged, we met back at the car, where he had already changed back into his driving clothes. "Yeah, I could get a job here if I wanted," he said. "Just have to go through a little training period. But I think I'll move...