Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...examining the authors' statement that the United States must "come to terms with Arab nationalism," Kirk declared that although all nations must accommodate their foreign policy to conditions in other nations, there are degrees of accommodation: the more powerful a nation, the less it must adjust to others...
Into Beirut flew the U.S.'s five-star Ambassador Robert Murphy, after a record eleven-hour nonstop flight from the U.S. To make certain that Chamoun does not use U.S. marines to keep himself in power. Murphy had behind him President Eisenhower's explicit statement that the U.S. accepts Chamoun's declaration that he will not try for a second term. It was Murphy's delicate, difficult mission to try to "orchestrate" a new solution among the squabbling Lebanese, so that the marines can go back to their ships...
...night before Goldfine was to appear before the subcommittee, in Room 805 in Washington's sedate Sheraton-Carlton, he recorded and filmed parts of his statement for radio and television, with McCrary on hand to yell "Take One," "Take Two" and "Take Three." The Goldfine statement was released for seven o'clock the next morning, three hours before he was to testify-a fact which infuriated the subcommittee because it 1) was impertinent and improper, and 2) beat the subcommittee to the early headlines...
McCrary ran Goldfine through a voice test of a statement prepared for radio and television. Then reporters tried to ask questions. "Wait a minute," roared Lawyer Sam Sears, an unlit cigarette dangling as always from a corner of his mouth. "Don't talk. Not a word." Goldfine stood silent, looking embarrassed. A reporter got scolded by Sears for insisting on questions. Snapped the reporter: "I'll say what I damn please." Then Goldfine read his statement for the actual filming (Tex McCrary had neglected to remove an empty highball glass and a used Old-Fashioned from the table...
...Kemper had no idea the Communists were using the Americans as hostages to pressure the State Department into recognition of the East German government. When Topping asked permission to present the facts of the case to Kemper so he could answer questions intelligently, he was cut off with: "No statements." But a Communist official promptly made a statement of his own: "The German Democratic Republic is making no political conditions for your release. It is the American side that is making the conditions...