Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst threats hanging over the economy has been the prospect that 120,000 members of the United Mine Workers would stop digging coal next week, when their union contracts expire. A mine strike would reduce U.S. energy supplies more than the Arab oil embargo last winter did; it would cause factory shutdowns and layoffs in industries far beyond the coal fields, and it would seriously worsen the gathering recession. For a while, a strike had seemed almost inevitable. But late last week the outlook brightened a bit, and the chance improved for the nation to avoid a long, damaging coal...
...there, beyond the oak-paneled rooms and red-carpeted stairways of the Cottage Club, most of the university was going about its business in more or less the usual manner. "There are probably even some people who don't even know this is Harvard weekend," a friend of mine conceded. "Can you imagine that?" Yes, I told her, if I closed my eyes real hard I thought I could imagine that. In fact, I could even imagine wanting to go out and join them...
Ellsberg also said the antiwar moratoriums of 1969 apparently "derailed" Nixon administration plans to mine Haiphong harbor that fall, two and a half years before the eventual mining occurred. And as in any spy story, Ellsberg cited some sources--a Washington Monthly article, Morton Halperin and John Paul Vann--while leaving others, such as National Security Council members, unnamed...
...Ellsberg said he "had been told throughout this period, a tacit assumption between my informants and me: since Hanoi is not going to meet the Nixon-Kissinger terms they are going to carry out their plan--the plan is to mine Haiphong and to wipe out North Vietnam...
Ellsberg said this order--alluded to in CRP deputy director Jeb Stuart Magruder's "An American Life"--was an effort to prevent him from publicizing plans to mine Haiphong. Then president Richard M. Nixon announced the mining of the harbor on May 8, 1972, explaining that it was necessary to keep supplies from the "international outlaws" who had launched an offensive five weeks before...