Word: ruckus
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...Haldeman, now living in California, said, "I really don't care what's on the tapes. They're ten years old." But the former President's lawyers, in their continuing effort to keep the 4,000 hours of unreleased Nixon tapes private, may raise a ruckus over how the newly disclosed transcript found its way into the Times. Hersh, who is writing a book about former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, has been doing research at the National Archives-where a team of twelve archivists is reviewing the remaining Nixon tapes. The former President...
...Arabia. Begin stated his objections to the sale in detail to Reagan, arguing that the sale posed a clear "danger" to Israel. "We are not frightened by AWACS," Begin told Reagan, "but we are worried about them." Still, he followed the advice of aides not to raise a public ruckus in the U.S. about the sale, since an all-out fight would look bad if Congress does not act to block the deal...
...learned, principally, how to cause a ruckus. Helms was never seduced by the Senate's clubbiness. It was as if he had crated up his Raleigh TV scripts, driven five hours north, and started pitching those editorials into the Senate hopper. If anyone took notice, it was generally with a snickering glance: Helms the flailing buffoon, a crossbreed of Dickens' Pecksniff and Fred Allen's Claghorn, full of futile cracker righteousness. Yet in Aide John Carbaugh's phrase, Helms "planted the flag": his hopeless proposals sometimes forced Senators to take stands on issues they would have just as soon avoided...
...police have steered clear of the ruckus. "Surely there exists a certain polarization between the ashamed dressed and the unashamed nudes!" exclaimed Assistant Lord Mayor Winfried Zehet-meier. "But if there are no indecent actions, nothing can be legally done...
...former Jurist Lord Scarman, would investigate the causes of the violence. Firebrand M.P. Enoch Powell, a Tory turned Ulster Unionist and a longtime opponent of nonwhite immigration to Britain, warned that "you have seen nothing yet." Five M.P.s demanded "a vigorous policy" of subsidized repatriation of nonwhite immigrants. The ruckus spread as far away as New Delhi, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on an official visit to India, was confronted by demonstrators protesting Britain's new immigration restrictions. A group of 23 pickets was arrested after throwing placards at her limousine...