Word: returned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...milk trial. In 1974 Connally was indicted by a Watergate grand jury for accepting $10,000 from milk producers while he was Treasury Secretary in return for urging the President to increase price supports. At the trial, a 1971 White House tape was played in which Connally urged Nixon to support the price rise for political reasons: "They're going to make their associations and alliances this year and they're going to spend a lot of money." Nixon received campaign pledges totaling $2 million from the dairy industry and raised price supports 270 per cwt. But Connally was acquitted...
...plea bargaining, these charges were dropped; but he pleaded guilty to a single count of bribery and agreed to testify against Connally. He maintained that during a talk in Connally's office at the Treasury Department on April 28, 1971, Connally asked for money for himself in return for his help in persuading President Nixon to increase milk price supports. When this was relayed to the Associated Milk Producers, said Jacobsen, who was an attorney for the coop, it gave him $10,000, which he delivered to Connally in two $5,000 installments later that year. But Connally...
...Vlasova had needed pressuring to return to the U.S.S.R., there was ample time to persuade her. When she arrived in Moscow, Vlasova was quoted as denouncing the U.S. for trying to compel her to stay, and was hailed hi the Soviet press as a heroine "who took a position of dignity and lofty civic duty" in the face of the "bourgeois brigands" of the U.S. If nothing else, the manner of her exit has probably saved her from what otherwise would have been her fate: the stigma of being the wife of a "traitor" with consequent loss of status...
...problem of dealing with "the troubles" continues to bedevil the governments of the Irish Republic and Britain. There had already been rumblings that security had slackened in Eke since Prime Minister Jack Lynch and his Fianna Fail Party were returned to power two years ago. Lynch's failure to return from a vacation in Portugal until late last week did nothing to stem the criticism, though he vigorously condemned the I.R.A. as the "real enemies of Ireland." Thatcher is being urged to push for tougher security measures when she meets with Lynch following Mountbatten's funeral this week...
...used to be that Americans returned from a vacation across the Atlantic full of tales of shopping bargains and cheap travel. No longer. Today, most return with their wallets empty, their credit cards fully charged and their spirits shaken by how little the dollar now buys. Many wonder just how Europeans can afford to live at all in Western Europe, let alone so well...