Word: nixon
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...present Administration's legal thinking and some of that widespread and misinformed public opinion. Caplan's treatment of the insanity defense aims at discouraging us from seeing the defense as one or all of the following: an overused and therefore dangerous "legal loophole" (the words are, ironically, Richard M. Nixon's): a play-trial toy of the rich (the usual tabloid lore), or, thirdly, a legal contradiction (the view of behaviorists, who see free will as an illusion and absolve guilt for behavior caused by external forces. Such thinkers feel the judiciary must either bring the perpetrators of anti-social...
...Soviet Union for Washington's taste. She signed a friendship treaty with Moscow and became a regular buyer of Soviet arms, while the U.S. lined up behind Pakistan. New Delhi was annoyed by Washington's opposition to India's nuclear program, and relations hit an alltime low when the Nixon Administration openly "tilted" toward Islamabad during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which Mrs. Gandhi refused to condemn outright, the U.S. began to supply Pakistan with heavy arms aid. Some U.S. officials predicted last week that relations between the two countries, already on the mend...
Massachusetts, considered a stubborn bastion of liberalism, was the only state to resist President Richard M. Nixon's reelection tidal wave...
WHETHER President Nixon believes his policies serve the interests of the American people, these last few weeks in his bid for reelection have only re-emphasized the cynicism of his four years in office. Refusing to meet his opponent head-on at home, Nixon has waged his campaign at the negotiating table through the machinations of Henry Kissinger. Promises of an imminent peace while the details of a settlement remain uncertain is an obvious attempt to obscure the four years of death and destruction in Indochina while Nixon has been Commander-in-Chief...
...This pattern of self-centered, deceptive politicking with the future of America--and of the world--at stake, is nothing new to the Nixon Administration.....Nixon's willingness to hire, if not actually direct, men deeply implicated in repeated allegations of organized attempts to sabotage the Democratic Party suggests a remarkable lack of principle or an incrediable lack of judgment...