Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allende soon found himself isolated from all potential supporters. A radio station operated by his Socialist Party went silent after making a final appeal to enlisted men to disobey the orders of their officers. Another station operated by Allende's Communist partners* in the Chilean Unidad Popular (Popular Unity) coalition went dead. Soon the only station left on the air in Santiago was one that identified itself as "the military government radio." Its first order: "The President of the republic must proceed immediately to hand over his high office...
...overturn the institutional remnants of the New Deal, he has turned to a set of beleaguered social groups for support: the so-called Silent Majority of lower-middle class, white urban ethnics and small-town and rural people of the South and Midwest...
...overturn the institutional remnants of the New Deal, he has turned to a set of beleaguered social groups for support: the so-called Silent Majority of lower-middle class, white urban ethnics and small-town and rural people of the South and Midwest...
...grand jury to put off the indictments for a week so that Ehrlichman could be brought to Washington to testify further on Watergate, the ITT scandal, and probably on the Ellsberg break-in and other plumbers' activities. Now that he has been indicted, Ehrlichman has grounds for keeping silent, at least in regard to the Ellsberg burglary case. His attorneys, in fact, asked the federal district court in Washington to quash the subpoena; testifying for a fourth time, they maintained, would be "unreasonable and oppressive." Cox, on the other hand, argued that Ehrlichman has testified only briefly...
...native of Portland, Me., Sean O'Feeney was the youngest of 13 children. An adventurous older brother, Francis, changed his name to Ford, went West and began to direct silent two-reelers...