Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such an impasse could lead to a complete perversion of justice in the varied Watergate crimes. The Watergate figures who have cooperated with prosecutors, admitted some of their own illegal acts and already entered guilty pleas, could wind up as the only principals to face punishment. Thus John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder and Fred LaRue, for example, might be jailed, while such adamant professors of innocence as John Ehrlichman, Bob Haldeman and John Mitchell might go free. While this outcome might not displease the White House, it would hardly reassure the public...
...curious Arabs, could not mask the grim mood of Jerusalem and Israel. The city and the nation are gripped by a cold fury, reported TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark: "It is an icy resolve that has stilled the passing joke. Like the coming of the khamsin, the cruel desert wind that afflicts the spirit of all those in its path, the Arab attack has plunged Israel into a state of shock. The myth of Israeli invincibility and Arab ineptitude has been demolished at one stroke...
...Arab nations carry out their oil cutbacks, the U.S. could wind up 2,000,000 bbl. short of the 17 million bbl. that it consumes each day. Energy experts in government, business and academe have been pumping out suggestions to help consumers conserve fuel. For example, one immediate way to pare energy demand is to continue Daylight Saving Time right through winter, thus chopping by an hour the heavy night-time use of electricity. Some other potential conservation measures...
...Plan Zeta," a supposed plot to murder top military leaders and rightists. The military did not learn of Plan Zeta's details, said Leigh, until after the coup, when the document was found in a safe in the presidential palace. Nonetheless, military intelligence had got wind of the general outlines of the plan by monitoring telephone calls into the palace. "We started thinking," recalled Leigh, "what does Zeta mean? We thought it would be dangerous for the security of the country. But we were worried by a lot of other more important things. Allende was cheating us, cheating...
...MAKING OF GONE WITH THE WIND...