Word: richard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connally told TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian. "I've got to clear them up." But his ability to excite crowds and raise money causes many political experts to believe that if he can surmount those "myths," the tall Texan is the most formidable Republican challenger for the presidency. Richard Nixon himself phones occasionally to offer encouragement and to predict the polls will change...
...opposes national health insurance, pushes strongly for nuclear power and the loosening of pollution laws to allow more use of coal, favors deregulation of oil with a provision that profits be plowed back to in crease production, and opposes gun control. His coup in luring right-wing Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie away from the Crane campaign has been important not so much for the money Viguerie might bring in as for the alliance Viguerie has with conservatives...
...past year Richard Nixon has led a singular exile, a man beyond his own shores, dwelling in the realm of world power, which he loves. He is not a Philip Nolan because he still resides firmly on U.S. turf, even goes to baseball games. Yet there is a tiny whiffy of The Man Without a Country around the nation's most prominent political scalawag. After five years a sizable segment of America still holds Nixon beyond forgiveness. It may always be thus. He may be ordering his life to acknowledge that...
...having planted it. The bomb injured four band members and twelve spectators; no one was killed. Intelligence experts have believed for some time that Irish terrorists have a base in Europe, whose operatives were responsible for the gunning down last March of the British Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, and possibly the car bombing from which outgoing NATO Supreme Commander General Alexander Haig narrowly escaped on June...
DIAGHILEV by Richard Buckle; Atheneum; 616pages...