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...Senate Judiciary Committee with power to subpoena White House documents, even the revival of the old question, "What did the President know and when did he know it?"-these all had the ring of Watergate. So did the repeated anticipation of things they "forgot" to say. The vow of Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who will head the committee, evoked Watergate when he said: "We will pursue the truth wherever the truth may lead and let the chips fall where they may." Observed Tennessee Republican Howard Baker, one of the Watergate committee inquisitors: "I listened with an eerie feeling. Bayh said...
With this vow, they formally become part of one of their country's most important institutions. The role played in World War II by what was then called the Red Army as savior of the motherland is still vividly remembered and celebrated. Military themes pervade Soviet literature, cinema and television. Beyond that, the might of the Kremlin's military juggernaut alone gives the Soviet Union legitimate claim to superpower rank. There is much pride but little exaggeration in the statement by Moscow's Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov that "the Soviet military has everything it needs to fulfill worthily its sacred...
Harberger's original vow in February that "if I come to Harvard it will be having surmounted these obstacles and not under a cloud," apparently proved prophetic...
...ordinance would probably do as much harm as good, tempting landlords to convert their units in search of peace and, presumably, more money. The first court fight on the ordinance began within months of the law's passage. It reached court for the first time last week. Both sides vow to keep fighting no matter what the outcome at the first judicial level. "I have felt for a long time that legislation would probably not survive the decade. What we are trying to do is soften the blow," Duehay says. "We can slow the pace of that technological change...
Reagan swept Democratic Governor Pat Brown out of office by nearly 1 million votes, largely on his vow to "squeeze, cut and trim" state spending, taxes and payrolls, much as he now promises to reduce the federal budget if elected President. Yet during his two terms in Sacramento, Reagan did none of those things...