Word: soled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat to Nixon's survival in office. For if Miss Woods' story is shown to be untrue, the inescapable conclusion would be that at least one of the subpoenaed Nixon tapes has been deliberately and criminally altered. Since the President has sworn that those recordings were in "my sole personal control," he presumably would be legally responsible for any such destruction of evidence...
...Arafat, as leader of the multigroup Palestine Liberation Organization, was designated "sole" representative of the Palestinians at the upcoming Geneva conference, despite Jordanian protests. Thus the eventual lineup of Arabs at the peace table will include Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians. The list is bound to irritate both King Hussein and Israeli Premier Golda Meir. "He doesn't represent a country," she said of Arafat last week. "I don't know how you negotiate with somebody who tells you that you are doomed...
...sole stipulation that Kennedy introduced to govern the student-faculty compromise was that any decision of the group would be retroactive for all grades recorded over the past term...
...year. Political analysts were quick to read into the override a new low in Nixon's authority. While such a drop has undoubtedly occurred, a more important reason for this particular congressional victory was a far-reaching consensus, even among some of Nixon's supporters, that the sole branch of Government empowered by the Constitution to "declare" war must somehow gain control over the presidential power to wage undeclared wars...
...seemed to have put the Middle East aside temporarily. Nonetheless, there appeared to be some anxiety in the Kremlin over the diplomatic success that the U.S. and its Secretary of State were having-in a sense at Soviet expense. One Moscow editor called the U.S. attempt to serve as "sole mediator" unrealistic and reached for a sporting metaphor to explain the Russian view. "In a boxing match," he said, "each side has its second. There have to be two seconds, not one working with both sides." The Soviets were hampered by the fact that they have had no diplomatic relations...