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...only 45 minutes before court time when Wright reviewed this turnabout announcement with Nixon in the Oval Office. No word of the switch had leaked out when Wright sat down quietly in Sirica's crowded courtroom at 2 p.m. At a table opposite him were eleven lawyers from the ousted Cox staff, apparently prepared to argue against the Stennis plan. Sirica entered, read tediously for 15 minutes from his original order demanding the tapes, and from the sustaining appeals court decision. Then he put down his papers and asked Wright: "Are counsel prepared at this time to file the response...
...move toward liberalization is designed to woo back much needed foreign investment capital and assuage European hostility to Greece's bid for full membership in the Common Market. With inflation running at 30%, Papadopoulos cannot hope to keep the lid on serious discontent unless there is a turnabout in the economy some time soon. Markezinis could help bring that change about. He is a palatable politician who was judicious enough not to attack the junta. He is also a brilliant lawyer, credited with having engineered Greece's postwar economic recovery in the 1950s when he served as Minister...
High Pique. No one seemed more astounded by the President's latest turnabout than his chief economic adviser, Treasury Secretary George Shultz, who happened to be attending an international trade meeting in Tokyo. Normally granite calm in any circumstance, Shultz put on a show of high pique from across the Pacific. Laird, said Shultz, "can keep his cotton-pickin' hands off economic policy." The tax plans described by the domestic-affairs chief were "out of tune with everything that had been discussed" before Shultz left on his trip. Moreover, said the Treasury Secretary, "Laird always sounds off about...
...primary responsibility in holding down inflation is to live within the budget. Said Nixon: "It is very disconcerting to note that al ready before the Congress are spending proposals which, if enacted, would bust the budget to the tune of at least $6 billion." Yet, in a quick turnabout, he ruled out any substantial saving from are duction in military spending...
...divestiture plan, first outlined in the Daly Report to the Cambridge Community last year, represents a dramatic turnabout from the mid-sixties, when the Pusey Administration engaged in a residential buying spree...