Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson certainly will not be able to stop the momentum for détente, but he has raised enough obstacles to upset the White House and outrage the Kremlin. The Senator dismissed the Moscow summit as being more "cosmetic" than substantial and suggested that the President would have been wiser to stay home and tend to Watergate. Last week he also tangled bitterly with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, charging that after the SALT I arms limitation agreement in 1972, Kissinger made secret concessions to the Russians-an accusation that the Secretary fervently denied. Then, hoping to steal some...
Acting to maintain the President's momentum, his aides lashed out at Chairman Peter Rodino and his committee. Patrick Buchanan, Nixon's special consultant and once a wily practitioner of the anonymous news leak, assailed the "nameless, faceless character assassins on the House Judiciary Committee." Another adroit news manipulator, White House Communications Director Ken Clawson, charged that leaks from the committee were part of "a purposeful effort to bring down the President with smoke-filled-room operations by a clique of Nixon-hating partisans." Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren joined the chorus, deploring "prejudicial and one-sided information...
...Reggie Jackson [June 3]. I am glad some light was cast on the humane side of an individual who is too often looked on as an overpaid hot dog. Reggie Jackson is a fine athlete who gives a booster shot to a game that seems to be losing its momentum...
Nevertheless, the momentum toward a peaceful fim à guerra colonial (end to the colonial war) has not been altogether lost. A de facto cease-fire still holds in Guinea, and neither side would rule out a resumption of the talks in the near future. Talks between Frelimo and the Portuguese are still scheduled to resume July 15 in Lusaka, although chances of a cease-fire in Mozambique are slight. As the OAU gathered in Mogadishu last week, Scares appealed to the organization to help settle differences that will arise in Lusaka and Algiers. Its ability to aid is doubtful, however...
...Kissinger would shuffle to the press cabin in the rear to tell the 14 reporters in his entourage that ALSTEAD the negotiations were, on successive days, 75%, 90% and nearly 100% completed. Though the figures were highly arbitrary, they were reported, and many of the newsmen felt that the momentum they generated helped get the talks moving. Says Westinghouse Broadcasting Correspondent James Anderson, "He played us like a violin...