Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House of Representatives voted to cut off all military aid unless President Nixon declared that it was necessary to U.S. interests. While Nixon pondered that prospect-the Senate has yet to act on the proposal-Colonel Papadopoulos, now Premier, spoke bitterly about American criticism of a faithful NATO ally. Spiro Agnew still wanted to visit the homeland...
...mistaken, but Agnew himself told accompanying newsmen that continued military aid to Greece is "a matter of overriding importance to the U.S." He also assured them that Papadopoulos "intends to return his country to representative government." There was no clear sign when that day would come, however, or that Spiro Agnew had hastened its coming...
Smith achieved a certain amount of publicity last year, when in the middle of Spiro Agnew's speech at a Boston Republican dinner, he stood up (because, he said later. "I couldn't just sit there and listen to that") and was promptly tackled by guards and carted off to jail. He has a reputation for doing things that are somewhat out of the ordinary and his presence at many a City Council meeting has both embarrassed the slower-witted Councillors and provided excitement for other spectators...
...hint that they would like to be able to continue the practice. Pressure was brought to bear on Tokyo to enlist Japan as a co-sponsor of the U.S. resolutions. As Washington's man at last week's Persian Empire gala in Iran (see story, page 32), Spiro Agnew had a handy excuse to make stops in Ankara, Teheran and Athens to press for their support...
...Headwaiter. Some of the most illustrious names on the invitation list failed to make it. Regrets were sent by President Nixon (who dispatched Spiro Agnew instead), Queen Elizabeth II (who was represented by Prince Philip and Princess Anne) and, in the unkindest cut of all, French President Georges Pompidou, who sent Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas. What was particularly grating was the fact that the Shah had given the affair such a heavily French accent. Taking note of this, Pompidou is reported by a Western diplomat to have said: "If I did go, they would probably make me the headwaiter...