Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington's second error was to appear to accept Makarios' successor, Terrorist Nikos Sampson. With his long record of violence against Turkish Cypriots, Sampson was clearly unacceptable to them and to Ankara. "In the context of Sampson," says Britain's former Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, "the Turkish invasion was inevitable from the beginning." The third error was for Washington, in the days following the coup, to state publicly that the Turks on Cyprus deserved greater autonomy, a statement that, although true, looked to Turkey like an invitation to invasion. State Department officials now privately admit...
...Seasons, Robert Bolt's wonderful historical drama about Thomas More, runs at Boston's Wilbur Theater until the end of the month. The play is as important today as it was when Paul Scofield created the leading role more than a decade ago: Sir Thomas, it should be pointed out, had post-Watergate morality hundreds of years before Watergate, and it wasn't even an election year...
...entrance were a poignant reminder of the smoothness with which the American system can transfer the world's most powerful office from one man to another. "Mr. Vice President," Burger intoned, "are you prepared to take the oath of office as President of the United States?" "I am, sir," Ford replied. Even before the Chief Justice asked him to do so, Ford raised his right hand, placing his left on a Bible held by his wife. It was opened to the Book of Proverbs, third chapter, fifth and sixth verses, which Ford says every night as a prayer.* Then...
...sir, we don't want...
...Barber's view, Nixon's greatest fear was "public exposure of personal inadequacy." While he often proclaimed his relish for combat, he seemed to dread it at the same time; it was as if defeat would mean, as it did for the King of the Wood in Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, a sentence of death. It was his efforts to prevent the exposure of his Administration's failings that ultimately undid...