Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the most painful week of Gerald Ford's fledgling presidency, public protest continued to batter the White House. Far from easing after the first shock of Ford's precipitate pardon of Richard Nixon for any and all federal crimes committed during his presidency, the controversy grew. It was fed partly by Ford's refusal to explain further his mysterious reversal on his Executive intervention, partly by White House fumbling on whether all the other Watergate offenders might also be pardoned. Ford's inexperienced aides ?almost all of whom had opposed the timing of the pardon?were left scrambling...
...consequences. They have good reason for their fear, since large numbers of Chileans are still being arrested. Last week Amnesty International charged, moreover, that the torture of political prisoners was still going on in Chile. A report issued by the London-based human rights organization claims that beatings, electric shock and deprivation of food and sleep are common practices...
...Battalion through Normandy, sealing off the peninsula in the eleven days after Dday. In his dramatic breakthrough to relieve Bastogne and his near legendary dash across the Rhine, "Abe" Abrams terrified the enemy as a daring tactician who relied on swift movement and overpowering violence. He believed in the shock value of mass attack combined with an awesome firepower that approached overkill. A captured German document said, somewhat hysterically, that Abrams' forces were totally made up of men who had been born out of wedlock or killed their mothers...
...Government should use its influence -or even its power-to depress the birth rate even further. Some support heavy taxes to discourage large families; others go so far as to urge the issuance of "licenses to procreate" or even mandatory abortions after a second child-extremes that rightly shock believers in freedom to procreate. So far, demographers point out, the U.S. Government, through its income tax structure and in other ways, like home loans, has been mildly "pronatalist," that is, supportive of child bearing. Nonetheless, the U.S. birth rate continues to fall. What are the reasons for the decline...
...Soviet Union-at the expense of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The first weeks after the overthrow of Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios were bad enough for NATO, as it watched the deterioration of relations between two of its members, Greece and Turkey. But the alliance received a shock with Greece's withdrawal last week of its military forces from NATO'S integrated command. Greece's departure left a hole in NATO's southeast defenses against the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact...