Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospect obviously pleases the Nixon Administration. Since Britain, the region's longtime constable, withdrew from the Persian Gulf in 1971, the U.S. has made no attempt to fill the power vacuum; its Middle East naval force based in Bahrain remains at two destroyers. But, faced with a growing shortage of energy and increased Soviet influence in the gulf area, the U.S. is eager to ensure its Middle East sources of oil. This can be achieved, Washington feels, by arming friendly Iran, as well as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait...
Because of that vacuum, constitutional scholars can scarcely be sure of anything. But there is general agreement that tapes and tape transcripts are legally the same as documents for the purposes of subpoena. And, for that matter, there is no major legal difference between a request for presidential papers and a request for his personal testimony. To date, there has never been a congressional subpoena issued to a President. Senator Ervin is confident that one could be, however. Such a subpoena, he argues, would not violate Executive privilege if it sought specified material that related only to campaign or allegedly...
...printed, barring sterilization of anyone who did not have "the legal capacity to himself consent to the procedure," but after an obscure controversy within the Administration, the guidelines were sent to a warehouse. Thus the use of federal funds for sterilization was left in a kind of legal vacuum...
That powerful "nothingness," says Updike, is named the devil-and the devil pervades man's experience. "These grand ghosts did not arise from a vacuum; they grow (and if pruned back will sprout again) from the deep exigencies and paradoxes of the human condition. We know that we will live, and know that we will die. We love the creation that upholds us and sense that it is good; yet pain and plague and destruction are everywhere...
...sharing things with someone whose own life-style lends itself to this peculiar situation. The times we have apart make us more conscious of the time we have together. The labors of living are totally divided by convenience. Any one of the three of us might make dinner or vacuum the house. It's a life of controlled chaos...