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As if her sandy prison were not enough cause for suffering and despair, Winnie is faced with an ungodly personal isolation. Her only company is her husband Willie, who usually remains silent and unresponsive to Winnie's periodic pleas for reassurances. Willie is his wife's opposite; his silence is...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: What Winnie Finds Wonderful | 8/16/1974 | See Source »

Some members used then? opening statements to make impassioned pleas for articles of impeachment that seemed un likely to win support from a majority of their colleagues. Father Robert Drinan, a Massachusetts Democrat, argued that it was wrong not to cite Nixon for the secret bombing of Cambodia just because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Fateful Vote to Impeach | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

The story runs like this: a young American dilettante studying in Switzerland meets and falls immediately in love with a delicate but forthright American girl on an extended holiday in Europe with her family. But the proper American boy, while utterly fascinated by this spontaneous girl, can't come out...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Daisy: A Study | 7/23/1974 | See Source »

In the face of Monday's act of international aggression and flagrant violation of the 1960 Cyprus Independence Treaty by a desperate and unpopular dictatorship, it is deplorable that the United States government has done relatively little to uphold its obligation to support democracy throughout the world. Our government has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save Cyprus | 7/19/1974 | See Source »

So far, so good. But just how hard has Jaworski's office been bargaining? Both Krogh and Colson were apparently allowed to enter pleas without first telling the prosecutors what they know. Recalling the deals he made as a federal prosecutor, Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer says, "I always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Watergate Bargains: Were They Necessary? | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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