Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said Richard Nixon on March 21, 1973, while talking with White House Counsel John Dean about the Watergate burglars' demands for huge sums of hush money. When the transcript of the tape-recorded conversation was disclosed a year later, no one outside the cover-up conspiracy knew precisely what the President had in mind. It remained one of the many mysteries never cleared up by the Watergate investigation...
That may be as tough as getting tape recordings from the White House. The key figure, South Korean Entrepreneur Tongsun Park, hastily moved from Washington to London last year after the first published reports that he had given some Congressmen up to $10,000 each. The ethics committee, headed by Georgia's John J. Flynt Jr., has been looking into Koreagate for almost ten months without noticeable progress. Further tarnishing the House's image, the committee's counsel, Philip Lacovara, 33, who was Jaworski's Watergate assistant, quit two weeks ago, claiming that Flynt...
...communications technicians and the White House advance people, and then the TV people and newspaper and magazine reporters, and next the curious from other towns, and finally the firemen and troopers and deputies from other towns too. One TV crew got up at 5 a.m. to video-tape a Delta sunrise, and in front of Owen Cooper's house on Grand Avenue, for which Mr. and Mrs. Cooper bought new carpets, drapes and sheets for their overnight visitor, I sighted a TV crew shooting another TV crew at work...
...latest month for which figures are available, Rhodesia's white population of 270,000 declined by a record 1,339-an annual rate of about 16000 The real exodus could easily be twice what the official figures say it is; many departing whites, in order to avoid red tape and escape their military obligations, are simply going "on holiday" and not coming back...
...decade; the Federal Power Commission says that if the NRC'S estimate is correct, the national power level will be "too low." As a consequence of the 1973-75 recession, utilities canceled orders for 14 reactors and deferred 96 others. Among the reasons: harassment by environmentalists, government red tape and delays, the difficulty of financing. Says Robert Kirby, chairman of Westinghouse, the biggest builder of nuclear reactors: "We increasingly will be faced with brownouts and blackouts unless we do something to bolster our total power output...