Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that you Americans are bent on making Watergate Nixon's Waterloo? Are you sure this is what you want to do to the man who got you out of Viet Nam, made friends with the Chinese, lifted the Iron Curtain a bit-all within the past few years? Is this your way of saying thank you to a great leader who has done a lot for peace...
...taking the oath of office in the Cathedral of Athens, "Papa Dop" went before the television cameras and loosed a barrage of decrees and promises. He announced the lifting of martial law from the Athens-Piraeus area, long after most of the country had been freed from its iron grip. He laid out a fixed schedule for a return to what he called "full democracy," with a timetable beginning several months earlier than he had previously suggested. A constitutional court to pass on the legitimacy of political parties will be set up next month. He promised to create in October...
...three-story white villa in Zu rich's discreet residential district of Hongg is surrounded by electronic devices to detect intruders. As visitors walk from the iron gate to the front door through terraced gardens, they may notice that the burly man water ing the petunias has a revolver stuck in his jeans. They may also see a cheetah and hear the growls, if not feel the breath, of two lion-sized Great Danes...
...total, San Clemente ate up $6.1 million, including $1.7 million for the office complex known as the Western White House and $550,000 for communications equipment. There were many other expenses listed, some of them only tenuously connected with "security." Among these items were $998.50 to remove a wrought-iron handrail deemed hazardous and $1,950 to prune trees and eliminate what the GSA called a "safety hazard caused by dead branches...
...surface at least, the youth festival reflected East Germany's emerging worldliness after the iron-fisted rule of Walter Ulbricht that ended two years ago (see story above). It was kicked off with a huge parade led by the Vietnamese delegates, who ignited strings of firecrackers to symbolize U.S. guns firing on their people. Speakers ranged from Black Communist Angela Davis to Palestine Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat, both of whom were given enthusiastic receptions...