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Earlier, Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad met privately with Rogers at the Secretary's suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers; such is the degree of U.S. concern that President Nixon personally telephoned Rogers' suite to voice still one more plea for rectification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Succession and Stalemate | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...Vatican on his European tour and edified the Pope with the moralistic bombast appropriate to a man who models himself after Woodrow Wilson. Two days later the Lrish would throw rotten eggs at him. Paul VI, though, simply communicated to the President a brief but vigorous plea for peace. Nixon claimed to share the Pope's concern for peace and then generously requited from his Inaugural Address those hackneyed lines on "the need for strength in an era of negotiation...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Foreign Policy The Vatican Vision | 10/21/1970 | See Source »

...complain that Nixon should have saved the speech until after the World Series, the President had good reason to be happy with his performance. Should the Communists eventually agree to his proposals, he will have made the enormous stride of ending the killing in Viet Nam. Even if his plea is rejected, he will still get credit for trying to follow a Churchillian dictum: "To jaw-jaw is always better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon's Plea to End the Killing | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...people to "support the police with the maximum information that may lead to the apprehension of those who were part of this crime." The police, meanwhile, identified two suspects, Leonard Miller, 23, and Eddie Hampton, 21. Though neither suspect had been captured by week's end, Stokes' plea produced results. Police received a number of calls from neighborhood residents who had information about the crime. Help also came from Miller's mother and sister, who reported to police that Leonard had telephoned them asking for assistance. They refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Support for the Badge | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...Chinese brothers don't cop no plea...

Author: By Jill Curtis, | Title: Chants The Last Poets On Douglas Records. | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

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