Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's accounting, he had originally bought. Put another way, the President managed to recover 83% of his original purchase price by selling off 80% of his land-holding on to his house and six acres of choice ocean-front land in the bargain. Furthermore, since the entire plot was (and still is) held in trust by Los Angeles' Title Insurance & Trust Co., what B. & C. actually bought was a "beneficial interest" in the trust - an arrangement that might make it difficult for the company to develop its share of the land. In any case, in a rare...
Allende also complained that the strikes were "blatantly political" and were part of a Machiavellian plot. The conservative opposition agrees; it has a scenario for getting rid of Allende constitutionally. First of all, according to the scenario, continuing economic chaos leads the Congress to censure the President repeatedly. (This requires only a simple majority, which the opposition parties command, not the two-thirds necessary for impeachment.) Military leaders are warned that if they join the Cabinet they may be liable to prosecution for violating their oath to defend the constitution if they help a President who is acting illegally. Allende...
...opposition plot fails to reckon with the virtually certain response of Allende's dedicated proletarian supporters. The 1.4 million members of the General Confederation of Workers and other Allende partisans would undoubtedly mount a general strike and take to the barricades on behalf of their leader. The specter of civil war would most likely bring in its wake a military coup...
...PLOT TO SEIZE THE WHITE HOUSE...
...investments. Then came the mysterious kidnaping last month in Tokyo of South Korean Opposition Leader Dae Jung Kim. Although Kim was released in Seoul five days after being abducted, many Japanese are convinced that South Korean President Chung Hee Park's CIA masterminded and carried out the bizarre plot in violation of Japanese sovereignty. Now Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka has bowed to public pressure and dramatized his country's displeasure by postponing until mid-October the annual ministerial meeting between the two countries. It had been scheduled for next week...