Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Word of the impending Franco announcement reached the Pretender just as he was about to leave on a Mediterranean vacation cruise. It was canceled immediately. "This operation is being carried out without taking me into account, or the free will of the Spanish people," Don Juan said in a statement. "I am therefore a spectator to the decisions which will be taken on this matter, and I hold no responsibility in this restoration." There was no mention of abdication. Said one of his court officials: "Don Juan will not abdicate unless he is convinced that this is the only...
...calm those fears, the Administration last week issued what amounted to an official statement on the subject. In his first news conference since becoming the President's chief legal officer, Attorney General John N. Mitchell pointedly announced that the incidence of wiretapping by federal law enforcement agencies had gone down, not up, during the first six months of Republican rule. Mitchell refused to disclose any figures, but he indicated that the number was far lower than most people might think. "Any citizen of this United States who is not involved in some illegal activity," he added, "has nothing...
...hearing, Justice Potter Stewart noted that the Court had ordered the release of records only when the eavesdropping violated the Fourth Amendment-and that it had not ruled on the legality of bugging for national-security reasons. To the Justice Department, at least, Stewart's statement seemed to mean a green light for any national-security tapping that it felt necessary...
Daniel Webster remarked about Dartmouth, "It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it." If a similar statement could sum up West Point, it might be found in the words of one devout cadet who said, "It's better to sire an illegitimate child than to marry and violate West Point regulations...
...significance of the game described above you have already fallen into one of them. Les Creatures is a film of instant significances, a jumble of insane metaphors. Anyone who takes it at face value would necessarily conclude that Mlle Varda is a woman so obsessed with making a profound statement that she is incapable of anything beyond pretentious babbling...