Word: rift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California charges against him would probably be dropped. That, presumably, would also be the case if Ehrlichman pleaded guilty to one federal charge in return for testifying against the President and former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. At the moment, there is no sign of a rift be tween Nixon and Ehrlichman. Yet ultimately, Ehrlichman may be pushed into a position where he can harm the person on whom he is now counting for help - the President...
...allots its sparse treasury selectively, and for PBS that is an accepted practice. But a great rift erupted between PBS and CPB early this year when the CPB itself attempted to exert creative control over programming. In the past, CPB had been a patron of the television arts, and a rubber stamp for the creative talents of professionals at PBS. But Loomis sought to bypass PBS and its "Eastern liberal" point of view. CPB directors voted unamimously to begin the financing and distribution of specific programs to affiliates. PBS was to be limited to the operation of technical facilities...
...deep and how permanent is the rift? Karl Dietrich Bracher, a respected West German political scientist, thinks it can be easily healed. "Many present commentaries seem overpessimistic and overlook reciprocal interests," he says. "A serious showdown between Europe and the U.S. seems to be a purely theoretical issue." From the other side of the Atlantic, there was a feeling that bygones ought to be bygones. "We have made our point," says one State Department official. "We have shown our anger. Now we can go on with business...
Abernathy also disclosed a rift between King's widow and the organization he left behind. Coretta Scott King has devoted most of her considerable drawing power as a fund raiser to gathering donations for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change, a research library and memorial to her slain husband. A modern four-block complex to be built only two blocks from the dilapidated S.C.L.C. headquarters on Auburn Avenue, the center is expected to cost over $6,000,000. Abernathy said Mrs. King had been unwilling to share funds with his strapped civil rights organization. King...
...rift between Justice and Interior grew, White House officials became more and more impatient. At week's end they took charge of the Wounded Knee affair for the first time and accepted Assistant Attorney General Harlington Wood's plea that Interior officials be forced to take some action. Franklin was ordered to fly to South Dakota to deal with the Indian leaders. As negotiations progressed, a settlement seemed nearer. But no one was quite as optimistic as Franklin, who declared rather cavalierly before flying from Washington that the situation was "not as serious as those Wild West movies...