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...Kissinger pressures Israel to remove some of its troops from the west bank, and there is no reciprocal action by the Egyptians, Israel will become increasingly fearful about the Geneva conference, where it must look solely to the U.S. for support. To plead Israel's case, Dayan flew to Washington last week. Is rael is very conscious of its diplomatic isolation, of the success with which the Arabs so far have wielded oil as a political weapon, and of the full backing the U.S.S.R. gives the Arabs. Moreover, Israel realizes it is further weakened by its domestic political disunity...
...former White House staffer. Dwight Chapin was indicted for having lied when he disclaimed any official connection with Donald H. Segretti, the convicted political saboteur. Chapin thus became the 18th man to be indicted on charges stemming from the Watergate affair and other scandals; Krogh was the twelfth to plead guilty or be convicted in the Watergate matter...
...motivation for Watergate. And they did not have a sensitivity to Constitutional principles or ethical standards which might have stopped them short. An administration which burgled and bugged the home of syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft and so many others with the approval of its highest officials can hardly plead that these same officials would recoil in shock from a proposal to wiretap Larry O'Brien...
...people plead that Congress spare us any further agony by continuing with the impeachment machinery...
Even if the PSC grants a permit to AP&L after the proper safeguards are installed, no one can guarantee that the utility will not get its way in the end. That wonderful figment of everyone's imagination--the energy crisis--will provide AP&L the perfect opportunity to plead for dispensation from the 1970 Clean Air standards...