Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amnesty for Nixon would weaken America's ability to protect itself from corrupt officials. If he is guilty he should be convicted of his crimes, not only to provide a deterrent example and emphasize that no man is above the law, but also so that historians can never portray him as a martyr hounded out of office by political enemies...
Amnesty for draft evaders would weaken the power of the country to draft in any future emergency. They refused to accept responsibility for their decisions. Perhaps if they had remained in this country and refused to serve, their public example would have shortened the Viet Nam War. As it was, they fled, abandoning their birthrights. They cannot now reclaim them...
Frustrated by its inability to aid the ethnic Greeks on the distant island against Turkey's blatant aggression, the new democratic government of Premier Constantino Caramanlis angrily denounced its NATO allies, particularly the U.S., for not intervening. In a move that may permanently weaken the West in the eastern Mediterranean (see following story), Athens summarily pulled its forces out of the NATO alliance. "NATO is dispensable," Caramanlis, 67, said in a grand De Gaulle-like gesture of independence. "It used us, but when we needed it, it closed its eyes...
...Nixon's departure weaken the presidency? Will future Presidents have to operate with one wary eye on the polls and the opposition in Congress, not to mention the press, because the precedent now exists that a President can be overthrown? On the contrary: it was Nixon himself who foreshortened the constitutional process out of a realization that the case against him was overwhelming. By resigning, he conceded the inevitability of impeachment and conviction. Anyone who argues that Nixon was hounded unjustly from office has a quarrel not with Nixon's enemies but with the U.S. Constitution, for the Constitution would...
Moderator: Yes, I see. OK, we have also heard that Mr. Ford has a less-than-positive record on civil rights, and that he has voted for rights bills only after trying to weaken them by adding harmful amendments. Is there any truth to that rumor...