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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along, believe me." Haig delivered a scorching letter from Nixon to Thieu on Jan. 16. Its crucial paragraph read: "I have irrevocably decided to initial the Agreement on Jan. 27, 1973, in Paris. I will do so, if necessary, alone. In that case I shall have to explain publicly that your Government obstructs peace. The result will be an inevitable and immediate termination of U.S. economic and military assistance." On Jan. 21, Thieu finally relented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Kain said the delay in the accreditation renewal "was never a terrible and calamitous thing in our mind. It's one of those which at one level really isn't important. But it's a lot easier to have the accreditation than to have to explain to 200 million people out there that it isn't a great issue...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Vindication From the Top | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

Title IX, you might or might not recall, was born back in 1972 when the folks down in Washington decided that men and women ought to have equal opportunities to participate in athletics. Last December, in an attempt to explain these regulations, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare--that giant bureaucratic machine which oversees Title IX -- issued more regulations. Those new proposals were originally scheduled to go into effect in April; then HEW said in July; but now, sad to say nobody in Washington seems to know when they will take effect...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Lost in the Bureaucratic Sludge | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...vision of Bouvier as society's victim and the audience's gut response to these atrocities. His attempt to weasel out of providing firm answers by "prettying up" these murders verges on the immoral. To kill young children is a heinous crime and no amount of earlier abuse can explain it away...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Gross and Stupid | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...near Seabrook. Without this work the occupation will fail. We need drivers, office staffers, medics, people to gather food, supplies and money to keep the occupation going. We need people to join the occupation to replace those who will have to leave. And we need leafletters and canvassers to explain the nature of our action to others, and to join in a mass unobtrusive picket at the plant site gates Monday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOP Seabrook Oct 6 | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

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