Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the military tries to take over the U.S. Government? According to news accounts, the Pentagon had planted a spy ring in the White House to ransack Henry Kissinger's classified files and copy documents relating to the National Security Council's most sensitive deliberations. The stolen information was then relayed to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other Pentagon brass...
...European airports. Adding urgency to the precautionary measures were rumors that terrorists were roaming the area with antiaircraft missiles. According to one report, the extremists had Soviet-built SA-7 Strelas, a shoulder-launched missile. Another rumor was that they had broken into NATO bases in Brussels and stolen Redeye missiles, the U.S. counterpart of the Strela. Whatever the case, European security men were plainly worried...
...virtue in any form of journalism ("It deals with sensation and scandal, things that can be made entertaining or amusing"). He depicts the press collectively as a self-serving purveyor of misinformation. While journalists presume a high moral standard for others, they are willing to publish material drawn from "stolen" documents. Newspaper editors demand total freedom of expression for themselves, but were for years generally silent about Government restraints on their competitors in broadcasting...
...indicated an astonishing pervasiveness of corruption among Nixon's political and official associates. Theirs was a lust for the enhancement of their leader carried far beyond acceptable limits. That made it all the more menacing to democracy, if less alarming to those who insisted that, after all, nothing was stolen and no one was killed. No fewer than twelve of Nixon's former aides or the hands they hired were convicted of crimes. Six others, including two Cabinet members, were indicted. At least seven more Nixon officials seem certain to be indicted when the three federal grand juries...
...land; village leaders found that the communal lands, which had provided for the young and the sick and the poor, now belonged to outsiders. As the French widened their control over Vietnam and cleared new lands for cultivation, they continued the expropriation by decree. By 1931 the French had stolen and redistributed over two-fifths of the arable land in Vietnam...