Word: nams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Duplicity lay at the heart of both our modern political tragedies-Viet Nam and Watergate. It came in many forms. There was Richard Nixon's audacious attempt to fool 70 million television viewers about his role in the political scandal, and there was Lyndon Johnson's budgetary sleight of hand to disguise $10 billion in war costs. In between there were fibs and fudges, convenient losses of memory, tampering with records, feigned confusion and phony definitions of words and phrases. One way or another, it was all designed to obscure the truth. One way or another...
During the late stages of the Viet Nam War, military conscription was so despised by so many Americans that it spawned a new class of nonviolent criminals: young men who tore up draft cards or fled to Canada or Sweden to avoid induction. Since then, the U.S. has shifted to an all-volunteer force, and no one has been called up since 1972. But last week Congress reluctantly was again considering reinstating the draft, or at least some of its preliminary steps...
DIED. Per Haekkerup, 63, Danish politician and diplomat; of cirrhosis; in Copenhagen. As his nation's Foreign Minister from 1962 to 1966. Haekkerup lobbied for Denmark's admission into the Common Market (achieved in 1973), opposed the Viet Nam War and apartheid in South Africa...
...event, the bill will not come in time to help the Government in the FBI case. Defense attorneys want to bring out classified information that might justify their clients' covert operations (the Weatherman, they claim, was dealing with Palestinian guerrillas, Cuba and North Viet Nam). So far the Government has refused to hand over the information. Last week the judge agreed to try Felt and Miller separately from Gray, partly because they claim that they acted on Gray's orders. It appears that Felt and Miller will go to trial, but since prosecuting Gray would bring out very...
could have prevented a serious distortion of the news." He also found "a sense of doubt or. even cynicism about the Government . . . brought about I'm sure" by the press's having been deceived over Viet Nam, Watergate and the CIA. As for inaccuracy, "I think a lot of that was caused by my relative in accessibility ... I think that we've made some progress." Time was up; a strong accusation had been made but only softly documented. Was this −like Eisenhower's remark about the military-industrial complex −an unexpected, out-of-character...