Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Globe's John Powers (on the apartheid protest): "You know, everyone was down on Nixon, but I loved the guy. He moved the troops into Cambodia and got me out of 80 pages of papers and three finals...
Designed as a demonstration breeder for the U.S., Clinch River has been jinxed from the start. When Richard Nixon gave the go-ahead in 1971, its cost was projected at $699 million. Seven years later the price tag is $2.2 billion and ground has yet to be broken in the Tennessee valley. What's more, the architectural firm given the contract for the project wrote in a 1973 report that Clinch River was "one of the worst sites ever selected for a nuclear power plant based on its topography and rock conditions." And with the increased amounts of uranium...
...words, as Sen. James McClure (R-Idaho) put it: the Clinch River appropriation is "in effect, self-authorizing;" it needed to be killed with a specific bill, not just left out of a budget as Carter had done. The senators had seen the President's plan as akin to Nixon's impoundment of funds and that view had prevailed...
...ruling Chilean junta, Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Moffitt draws a parallel between the Chilean coverage of this investigation and the American press coverage of Watergate; he says that Pinochet's enemies are using this scandal to force him out of office, in the same way Americans said that Nixon couldn't govern the country amidst the Watergate revelations. He adds that an official in the State Department said two weeks ago that, "Pinochet's days are numbered clearly; that he'll never last the assassination investigations...
...decision was at least a temporary victory for Nixon, his first in a case concerning the White House tapes. In 1973 he had failed to keep the tapes from the Watergate probers, and in 1977 he had unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the Presidential Recordings Act. Still, the battle for the tapes is far from over. The GSA's attempts to set rules for public access promise to bog down in further litigation. Only one thing is for sure: no Nixon recordings are likely to be seen rising on the pop charts any time soon...