Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There never has been an uproar about paying or not paying, but this is our first Nixon-type speaker. What if next time we invite someone like Jane Fonda or the Berrigan brothers there is protest? They've been arrested. I don't know what answer we can give," he said...
Such is his impact on international affairs that almost anything said by Henry Kissinger is bound to attract widespread attention and comment. Last week-perhaps inadvertently, perhaps not-the Secretary of State managed to trigger a worldwide uproar. In a lengthy Business Week interview, Kissinger responded to a question about possible U.S. military intervention against the oil producers by cautiously noting that this would be "a very dangerous course." But then, using a complicated-not to mention cryptic-triple negative, he added: "I am not saying that there is no circumstance where we would not use force...
...development of his thinking. But unlike most of those one-time socialists who wound up celebrating the American consensus, Lippmann suffered no traumatic disillustionment, no sudden or gradual discovery that led him to discard his earlier views. Right from the beginning, his hopes centered not on revolutionary uproar or change, not on the tumult and intrigue of politics, but on solutions quietly worked out by responsible public officials limited by a strong system of checks and balances, on the reason, clarity and ethics he believed intellectuals like himself could bring to government. From the beginning, Lippmann distrusted an uneducated public...
Community uproar over a possible police beating forced City Manager Corcoran to hire Boston University Law Professor Paul J. Liacos as an outside consultant to conduct a full investigation into the case. At the same time, Middlesex County District Attorney John J. Droney began an inquest that would sent its findings to a grand jury...
Perhaps the new President, convinced by the uproar over his predecessor's policies in Latin America, has decided that the time has come to implement detente in this hemisphere. Though Ford took a standard rightist line toward resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba while serving as House minority leader, there is no reason to doubt that he might not alter his stance, as he did on both China policy and the amnesty issue. It is reasonable to think that Ford is aware that the continuing exposure of American intervention in Chile can only hinder U.S. foreign policy. By allowing Javits...