Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students. William Corson, the intelligence historian, cites one former CIA official as saying in 1976. "By 1985 we'll own 80 per cent of the Iranian government's second and third-level officials." One can almost see Ayatollah Khomeini's beard turn a whiter shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student in four remains loyal to his intelligence master and even he is apt to produce worthless intelligence or metamorphose...
...first Ford sent Aide Benton Becker to San Clemente to persuade the former President to make a full confession. Becker was met by Nixon Aide Ron Ziegler, who declared: "Let's get one thing straight immediately. President Nixon is not issuing any statement whatsoever regarding Watergate, whether Jerry Ford pardons him or not." Ziegler proposed a statement that Becker turned down; after three more drafts, they agreed on one in which Nixon stopped far short of a full confession. When Becker tried to explain to Nixon that accepting the pardon was an implied confession of guilt, Nixon wanted...
...statement, the Israeli military told Jordan's King Hussein it views "with gravity" the use of his country as a base for terrorist attacks on Israel...
...joint statement of purpose, the coalition stated: "Harvard University is not an island unto itself; it plays an integral ideological and economic role in a society which oppresses people along national, class and sexual lines...
...groups which constitute the Coalition for Awareness and Action have actively fought injustice at home, abroad, and at Harvard itself. Believing that these issues of racial and social injustice are interrelated, we hope to educate each other and the broad community by engaging in joint work this April," the statement continued...