Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon was out to get Cox--that is plain. By surrendering the tapes he has, in fact, made it all the more obvious. The tapes were a pretext to fire Cox. If there had been a real issue involved with them Nixon would have sensibly carried his arguments to the Supreme Court. But with the diligent special prosecutor out of the way, the tapes no longer serve any purpose. And by now releasing them to the judge, Nixon may be trying to create the impression that he has made a major concession...
...Israelis were content to let the Egyptians sit there while they concentrated their effort more than 300 miles away at the far end of Israel on the rolling Golan plain above the Sea of Galilee. Here, along a 60-mile front, the Syrians had massed nearly 1,000 tanks. And here the Israelis, forced to fight a simultaneous two-front war, decided to make their first major counterattack...
...Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (Norton; $8.95), written by Jay Haley, his longtime colleague and admirer. Haley shows how, out of hypnosis, Erickson has drawn a whole bag of ploys that persuade the patient to change himself rapidly. For example, a 250-lb. woman says she is "a plain, fat slob." Erickson takes over: "You are not a plain, fat, disgusting slob. You are the fattest, homeliest, most disgustingly horrible bucket of lard I have ever seen, and it is appalling to have to look at you." He continues insulting her-agreeing with her self-image and exaggerating...
While stressing the need for grand jury secrecy, the department contended that prying out confidential news sources is too high a price to pay. "We have supported the right of courts to the testimony of newsmen when its relevance and importance were plain," the department said. "We have never supported incursions into this sensitive area for the mere purpose of conducting fishing expeditions, and it is plain that that is all that is involved here...
...reputedly the toughest hombres in the lot. Besides their goal of halting the attacks, the Lavender Panthers want to gainsay the popular notion that all homosexuals are "sissies, cowards and pansies" who will do nothing when attacked. All of the Panthers know judo, karate, Kung Fu or plain old alley fighting. For gays without defensive skills, the Panthers hold training sessions with instruction from a judo brown belt and a karate expert. Although Ray has a working arrangement with Elliot Blackstone, the police community relations officer who deals with homosexuals, not to carry firearms on his patrols, he does keep...