Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...input, Guinier argues, the Review Committee is illegitimate. But not enough professors believe Dunlop and Bok have deliberately subverted the program to sustain Guinier's position. The mood on campus has changed since 1969 when the department was set up under the threat of student militancy and should Guinier threaten the Faculty, they will probably not be concerned...
More simply, Thieu could threaten to embarrass Nixon by loudly rejecting the Kissinger plan and vowing to carry on the fight against the Communists alone. The Administration might find it difficult politically to cut off U.S. aid to Saigon under those circumstances. But it could effectively counter by threatening to negotiate a bilateral, separate peace with Hanoi-a possibility that worries many South Vietnamese...
...behind-the-scenes boss and kingmaker of the Labor Party. Sapir, 65, has frequently said that he does not want the job, although it is his for the asking. His refusal to accept the premiership might well lead to an open battle between Dayan and Allon that would threaten Israel's governing coalition, or to the choice of a candidate not to Mrs. Meir's liking-such as Foreign Minister Abba Eban. Either circumstance might convince her that she should stay in office for a while longer...
...London police, who have had difficulty in spotting the gangs before they commit a crime and communicating with the relatively few who are caught. "It's like talking to someone of another race," says one officer. "We don't really know when to yell at them, threaten or go gently. We just don't know much, that's all." The fear among some policemen is that the bovver birds, more adept at disguise than male street gangs, and appearing less threatening, will eventually become more proficient than men in the way of violent crime...
...civil liberties. Under Nixon, reporters are jailed when they refuse to answer a grand jury's questions on the grounds that a response would dry up their news sources. Under Nixon, an American newspaper was taken to court to prevent the publication of material that could in no way threaten the security of the United States. Under Nixon, wiretaps are employed with reckless abandon and defended at an acceptable form of social control. Nixon's mediocre Supreme Court relaforces repression. Nixon's Vice-President indulges in rhetoric which scorns civil liberties and vilifies a free press. Nixon transforms such words...