Word: proved
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Still, as a State Department expert put it, "SALT has survived the Cambodian invasion, the mining of Haiphong and the Middle East war." In spite of this week's serious setback, the Soviet cancellation of the trade agreement may well prove to be a tactical but not a strategic retreat from detente...
There were even those who believed that peace would exert its own form of pressure on the Proves. "The consequences of the truce breaking down are too grim to imagine," one of the eight Protestant clergymen who helped to arrange the cease-fire said earlier last week. "If this fails, it will be a fight to the finish." With a vengeance that seemed to prove him right, the peace was shattered shortly after the I.R.A. announcement, by a bomb explosion at an army post in northern Belfast...
...pains to combat. One of the first items on the Administration's agenda may be increased military aid for embattled South Viet Nam, a request that will be met in Congress with hot resistance or icy indifference. But Ford's persuasive powers with the legislative branch may prove useful. By buttonholing senior Senators last month, he was able to persuade them to extend the cutoff date for military aid to Turkey...
...former bosses, Ehrlichman and Haldeman, Dean said he thought "they have convinced themselves that they are innocent. It appears they will devote the rest of their lives to trying to prove it. I hope for the best for them, but I wish there were some vehicle for them to tell the judge what happened, instead of just continuing to deny the overwhelming evidence." Dean argued that Haldeman's attorney, John J. Wilson, was wrong in referring to Dean and other young witnesses as "pretending to be cleansed." Said Dean: "I hope Wilson doesn't really believe that about...
...cool campus scene may hot up again. Ron Ziegler, Richard Nixon's press secretary, is going on the college lecture circuit. Federal funds for his $42,500 salary will stop in February, and Ziegler has signed up with the Colston Leigh lecture bureau for a tour that may prove to be a dry run for Nixon's own emergence from seclusion. Ziegler has not yet said what he will talk about, but critics of his past performances cannot wait to watch him taking questions from the floor...