Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refuses to yield the evidence. Nixon apparently believes that such a charge would be too thin to enlist broad public support and that even if impeached by the House on that charge, he could muster the 34 votes necessary in a Senate trial to retain his office...
...students' career aspirations show only the vaguest commitment to social welfare and reveal a desire to play safe. The shift away from graduate study in academic disciplines and toward the professions, particularly law and medicine, shows the primacy of role and allows them to retain an ambiguity in their attitude toward class. While some students seek to escape organizational constraint by pursuing careers as writers or artists, few search for a life of creative activity. When pressed, many of these free souls will reveal the ambition of celebrity. A commitment to significant work does not distinguish them from the aspirants...
...deep source of friction, accentuated by the Yom Kippur War and the Middle East oil cutback, is Europe's relationship to the U.S. Is Europe, as most of its governments desire, to retain close economic, political and defense ties with Washington? Or, as the French maintain, must the Continent largely ignore U.S. interests? The French sometimes frame the choice in the context of continued hope for a united Europe. Said Premier Pierre Messmer: "Europe is not moribund." However, calling for "an extension of European cooperation, which we sincerely wish," he added that "it makes sense only in the affirmation...
Caetano fired Spinola last week for criticizing the government's policy of seeking to retain control of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau by continuing a 13-year-old war against revolutionary guerrilas...
...prizewinning writer lays out his program for the salvation of the Russian people. He appeals to the Kremlin masters to abandon the entire basis of their power: Marxist ideology, industrial development, nuclear supremacy and imperial domination of other nations. At the same time, Solzhenitsyn suggests that the Soviet leaders retain their present "absolute and impregnable power," while entreating them to rule out of love for the people...