Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restore Reston's lost faith in America's Vietnam policy. When Nixon carpet-bombed North Vietnam at Christmas 1972, Reston wrote, "This is war by tantrum" (column, Dec. 26, 1972). In a news analysis written the day after the cease-fire agreement on Jan. 23, 1973, Reston again lamented the loss of America's innocence. "The guess here is that it will take some time to restore the self-confidence of the pre-Vietnam years, but it may be that the destruction of many popular misconceptions will produce a more mature, if sadder, nation...
...telephone calls between the White House "plumbers" and CIA personnel, it occurred to Baker that he might be able to get tape recordings of these conversations from the agency's files. When he asked about the tapes, however, he was told that they had all been destroyed on Jan. 18, 1973. That was exactly one day after the CIA had received a letter from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield requesting that all evidence relevant to the Watergate investigation be safeguarded...
...private investigation of the national security aspects of the Watergate affair - everything from the Pentagon papers case, which led to the formation of the plumbers' unit in June 1971, to the Pentagon's spying on the National Security Council, which first came to light last month (TIME, Jan...
...showing at a theater seating 1,450. Every day 5,000 moviegoers stand in the long queue wrapped around the Sack 57 Cinema in Boston. Four Manhattan theaters have lines extending for blocks from noon to midnight. In its first five weeks, The Exorcist (TIME, Jan. 14-21) has rung up more than $10 million at box office cash registers in 20 cities. Glowing -and gloating-Warner Bros, executives predict that it will easily top the alltime moneymaker The Godfather, which grossed more than $155 million for Paramount...
Shmuel Harlap's letter (Jan. 24) conveys a completely distorted view of the political atmosphere in Israel. Either Mr. Harlap is misinformed or he wishes to misinform the Harvard community about popular sentiments in Israel. His views represent neither the majority view in Israel, nor the views of the average Labour voter, but merely the hopes of those on the far left. He claims that the shift of six or so seats from Labour to Likud in the last election is "due to Golda's continuation as Labour's No. 1 rather than because the Israeli voter has shifted...