Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case there is one little known fact about the committee-how it got its name-that is within one paragraph of becoming better known. It is not particularly crucial to the political or other serious discussion whirling around behind the three locked doors of perception of the committee's hearings. Yet in some small way it might help. Certainly for the historian it is important to note that there is a reason for the name of the committee. It could have just as easily been the Committee for Justice. or the Committee on Freedom and Obligation. But it came...
Here, it hardly rated a paragraph in the Sunday heavies. But, back in Africa, last week's unilateral assumption of power by the ruling party in Lesotho was considerable news...
...soon as press reports of Ulbricht's statements clattered onto the Teletype in Palais Schaumberg, Brandt and a handful of key aides began to draft a reply. It came in the form of a letter from Brandt to East German Premier Willi Stoph. In his low-keyed four-paragraph note, Brandt wrote that the two Germanys should sit down at the negotiating table, in the first high-level meeting since the rival states were created 21 years ago, to discuss a renunciation-of-force agreement. In Brandt's words, the meeting could lead to a full exchange...
...October of 1967, as Johnson told it, he had decided that there would be no second campaign (although in hindsight he now believes that he could have won). By January 1968, Lady Bird had come to agree that he ought to quit and, in fact, had drafted a paragraph (she "firmed it up pretty strong in her own handwriting") that might be included in the President's State of the Union message. But the statement was left behind on his bedroom telephone table. Freudian oversight...