Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar pattern emerges as the Watergate hearings proceed. Some, like Jeb Magruder and John Dean, seem swamped by feelings of guilt and self-recrimination. Others, like John Mitchell, gruffly deny any wrongdoing (as they see it), and seem quite willing to rape the Constitution again at their next convenience. Meanwhile, the White House, which once espoused "benign neglect" (guess who thought that one up) at the expense of our black population, now espouses benign neglect with regard to the Watergate hearings...
...Recently I drove a fully loaded four-cylinder 1971 Volvo 2,000 miles on interstate highways at a fairly steady speed of close to 70 m.p.h. Owing to the prevailing wind pattern, the mileage on the west-to-east half of the trip was 22 miles per gallon, while the east-to-west mileage was 20 miles per gallon. It has occurred to me that we could solve a number of our fuel and pollution problems by having a large number of Californians return to the East in small cars...
...together they formed an ominous pattern that made Watergate comprehensible to Dean. What he called "an insatiable appetite for political intelligence" stemmed directly from Nixon, as Dean told it in his matter-of-fact manner. The President was convinced that antiwar Senators had links with U.S. radicals, who had foreign ties, and he continually demanded evidence of this. Intelligence agencies repeatedly said it was not necessarily so. "We never found a scintilla of evidence . . . this was explained to Mr. Haldeman, but the President believed that the opposite was, in fact, true." He demanded better intelligence...
Among those who witnessed the uprising was TIME'S Robert Lindley. "I was banging away at my typewriter when I heard explosions," Lindley cabled. "Since they began at 9 a.m. and followed a regular pattern, I thought they were a result of more blasting for Santiago's new subway system. But then I heard the unmistakable rattle of machine-gun fire. From the twelfth-floor window of my hotel room (which directly overlooks Moneda Palace), I saw a tank parked across Constitution Square. It had crawled up to within a few feet of the palace and trained...
...investment pattern, as much as its size, worries Hawaiians. Japanese companies have invested more than $250 million, mostly in the islands' booming tourist industry. "If the current pace of Japanese investment continues, it could mean foreign control of the state's leading industry within the next five years," concludes a report of the Republican caucus in the state house of representatives. A Honolulu cab driver is more blunt: "What the Japanese couldn't do during World War II, they are trying to do with bags of money-take over these islands...