Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Favoring Turkey. The Turks refused to obey peacekeeping orders from blue-helmeted U.N. troops. They made U.N. soldiers leave Turkish enclaves and forbade them to bring food to Greek refugees in Kyrenia, permitting the International Red Cross to handle the job instead. Snapped one Turkish official last week: "The U.N. has been openly favorable to the Greeks from the beginning, and it has got to stop...
...danger of a major war between Greece and Turkey was so acute that diplomats everywhere pitched in to stop the shooting on Cyprus. The Security Council approved unanimously-after the Soviet Union withdrew its earlier opposition-a resolution calling for a cease-fire and negotiations. Turkey flatly refused to obey...
Lacovara's use of the term "definitively" was a subtle reminder that the President had once pledged to obey a "definitive" decision of the Supreme Court in the original tapes fight waged by Jaworski's predecessor Archibald Cox. After Nixon had Cox fired for seeking this evidence, the political furor that followed forced the President to drop his planned appeal to the Supreme Court. Instead he yielded to an appeals court ruling that he surrender the first group of recordings. At that time Nixon's constitutional consultant, Charles Alan Wright, assured Judge Sirica, "This President does not defy...
...President would give his cause a tremendous lift. But in the more likely event that the court orders public disclosure of the tapes-and if they provide further damaging evidence-the pressure to remove the President from office would be greatly increased. Any refusal by Nixon to obey the court's order would lead to impeachment and very likely to conviction by the Senate...
Maurice D. Ford '52, lecturer on Law, was among a crowd of 250 who spent Sunday night on the steps of the United States Supreme Court Building hoping to be among the few spectators admitted to yesterday's hearings on whether President Nixon must obey federal subpoena's for Watergate tapes...