Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time the Star resumed publication, its readership had plummeted to the Gazette's old level. (The French-language La Presse [circ. 175,000] also fattened from the strike.) Said Star Publisher Art Wood after last week's announcement: "The simple truth is that Montreal could no longer support two independent English-language dailies like the Star and the Gazette, and the people of Montreal chose the Gazette...
...former President has shown up regularly at Angel games, autographing baseballs and copies of his memoirs. This year he bought four season tickets, and informed management: "Since you've obtained Carew we know you are making every effort to bring a winner here, and we want to support you." Nixon attended 20 games, 14 of which the Angels won. "Earlier this season he was 6-1," says an Angels spokesman, "but the team slowed down." Some of the players like having Nixon kicking around. Says the former President: "Donny Baylor tells me he needs me here to get those...
...argued that Hanoi's offensive was not in fact an offensive, since it had been provoked by the U.S., which was the real aggressor. He proceeded to quote statements from our American critics to support his position, which led to a testy exchange...
Hanoi asked for increased support from its Communist backers. But there was no rush to the barricades in either Moscow or Peking. On the afternoon of May 10, Dobrynin came to the Map Room of the White House. Out of the blue, he asked whether the President had as yet decided on receiving Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev, who was in Washington on a visit. The request could only mean that the Soviet leaders had decided to fall in with our approach of business as usual. Trying to match the Ambassador's studied casualness, I allowed that...
Nixon was quite positive that an agreement was unnecessary for the election; its benefit would be too marginal to warrant any risks. Haldeman thought that an agreement was a potential liability; he was certain that Democratic Candidate George McGovern's support had been reduced to fanatics who would not vote for Nixon even if he arranged the Second Coming. On the other hand, an agreement might disquiet conservative supporters. The Viet Nam negotiations, in short, were not used to affect the election; the election was used to accelerate the negotiations...