Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...given area. They would see a complex of computers buzzing with information from the latest "unarmed reconnaissance" flights over China or North Vietnam. American ground troops are doing very little of the fighting any more. With "inputs" immensely improved by the new technology, it has become possible to conduct the war from the air. Mechanics has taken over the American war effort; the boys may be returning home, but machines have stayed behind to do the killing for them...
Rhodes also charged that Nixon's conduct in the 1970 elections was "diametrically the opposite of what we recommended in the report. The President had concluded that the campaign would build on the divisions in America and amplify them...
...King in New York. He was getting ready to get the Nobel Prize-he was the last one in the world who should ever have received it. He wired asking to see me.* I held him in complete contempt because of the things he said and because of his conduct. First I felt I shouldn't see him, but then I thought he might become a martyr if I didn't. King was very suave and smooth. He sat right there where you're sitting and said he never criticized the FBI. I said, "Mr. King...
...James Richard ("Jasper") Cross. The defiant note was the last truculent gasp from the Quebec Liberation Front fanatics who had held Cross-and Canada-in fear, anger and uncertainty for 59 days. When the F.L.Q. members finally freed Cross last week, their price had come down considerably: a safe-conduct to Cuba for four terrorists and three of their relatives...
...first political kidnaping to occur north of the Rio Grande-set in motion a series of events that shocked the world. Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500,000 in gold bullion, plus transport and safe conduct for 23 jailed F.L.Q. thugs to Cuba or Algeria. After the ransom was denied, another group of kidnapers then abducted Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, prompting Trudeau to crack down really hard. Under a little-used World War I security measure, the Prime Minister invoked emergency police powers -something that...