Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adamant and defiant. He flouted the constitutionally sanctioned impeachment process by informing the House Judiciary Committee that he will ignore all pending and future subpoenas for White House tapes and documents. He directed his attorneys to appeal Federal Judge John J. Sirica's succinct ruling that Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's subpoenas for 64 tape recordings are legally binding upon the President. He took legal action to kill court-sanctioned subpoenas for White House files from two defendants in the impending Daniel Ellsberg burglary trial, thereby advancing the possibility that charges against two of his former aides, John...
...polarized political spectrum. Giscard won possession of the Elysée Palace for the next seven years with a bare 50.8% majority, or some 423,000 votes.* A small swing to the left might easily have made Mitterrand the winner, and given France its first left-wing government since Leon Blum's Popular Front of the 1930s...
...FASTER-THAN-A-SPEEDING-BULLET CITATION goes to Leon Goetz, for successfully stealing second on a pitch-out against Northeastern...
...Senator called the indictment a "trumped-up political charge from the beginning." But its dismissal did not end his troubles. Florida Attorney General Robert Shevin said that he would urge the Leon County prosecutor to appeal the decision. Moreover, a federal grand jury in Jacksonville is still investigating allegations of widespread bribery and kickbacks to politicians from Florida contractors. Gurney spent two days testifying before that grand jury last week...
...campaign laid bare deep divisions within French society-divisions that would surely trouble whomever the voters choose to succeed the late Georges Pompidou. A victory by Mitterrand would bring to power the first left-wing coalition government in France since Leon Blum's Popular Front in the turbulent late 1930s. A Mitterrand regime would also include the first Communists in any major Western European Cabinet since the cold war began-a fact that might legitimize the idea of Communists sharing power in other Western European countries, notably Italy...