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...seemed a curious way to do business. Why not directly tell Eagleton to quit, rather than send him messages through the headlines? Was McGovern trying to avoid the onus of firing his man? Or was it perhaps that Eagleton was having none of it? Eagleton seemed to suggest as much in his account of a Saturday telephone conversation with McGovern. McGovern, he said, had told him that he "had been under pressure" about Eagleton's candidacy. Yet, Eagleton insisted, three times in the course of the conversation he had wrung from McGovern the phrase "that...
...shortsighted and defiant, and helped paint his party into a tight corner by adamantly opposing ratification. The C.D.U. leaders repeatedly charged that the treaties were a sellout of German interests to Moscow. Privately, though, they hoped that the treaties would pass, so that the party should not bear the onus of holding up detente. Thus both sides procrastinated until the moment of truth arrived-and the result was what one Bonn political observer describes as "a grade-B performance-Brandt and Barzel...
...saying that they would never vote for the Treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, which are essential to Brandt's hopes of easing tensions with Bonn's Communist neighbors. Now that the treaties have been put forward for ratification, however, the C.D.U. does not want to bear the onus of killing them, since the pacts have become the keys to further progress in East-West détente. But Brandt's coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats no longer has a clear majority in the Bundestag-which means that passage of the treaties...
...this type of journalistic effort and the interests of Hifzi's Foreign Car Service. Business has been slow this winter season, what with the depressed state of the economy and the perennial financial worries beginning with the expenses of the Christmas season, the cost of insurance renewals and the onus of income taxes...
...Numeiry convened a press conference in Khartoum and described the treatment he had received when he was held by the rebels during the coup. "It was reprehensible," he said. "I went to the toilet only once in four days when I absolutely insisted on it." Then Numeiry put the onus for any breakdown in relations on the Russians. "If they want to choose that path, we will have no alternative," Numeiry said-which could mean he may beat the Russians to the punch by expelling the advisers before the Kremlin could order them to return home...