Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerful English-speaking minority, the Star consistently outsold its morning rival, the Gazette (circ. 168,000), which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that exodus well. But during the strike, circulation...
...incident could not have occurred at a more unfortunate time. The California Supreme Court, long regarded as one of the best state courts in the nation, is in the midst of a long-drawn, harrowing investigation involving charges that it allowed political considerations to influence the timing of important decisions. Moreover, the Oakland scandal inevitably raised questions about the quality of the Governor's judicial appointments. One Brown nominee for an appellate court vacancy had to withdraw after the Sacramento Union revealed that he had written a string of rubber checks and had several times been accused of malpractice...
Nixon then and there decided upon the mining of North Vietnamese ports. He would speak to the nation on Monday evening, May 8. He would convene the National Security Council on Monday morning...
...Nixon addressed the nation. In a restrained and powerful address, he repeated his willingness to settle the war. But the North Vietnamese "arrogantly refuse to negotiate anything but an imposition." The only way to stop the killing, therefore, was "to keep the weapons of war out of the hands of the international outlaws of North Viet Nam." He recited the military actions he was taking; he stated our negotiating position, the most forthcoming we had put forward: a standstill ceasefire, release of prisoners and total American withdrawal within four months...
When I arrived in Paris, I learned that Lyndon Johnson had died that day. He was himself a casualty of the Viet Nam War, which he had inherited and then expanded in striving to fulfill his conception of our nation's duty and of his obligation to his fallen predecessor. There was nothing he had wanted less than to be a war President, and this no doubt contributed to his inconclusive conduct of the struggle. It was symbolic that this hulking, imperious, vulnerable...