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...speech (see box) was delivered with remarkable restraint, given the circumstances, and without a trace of demagoguery or self-pity. There were no attacks on his old enemies, no visible bitterness. There was also no concession of anything more serious than "mistakes" in his handling of Watergate, and no hint of remorse except one line regretting "any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision." His statement that he leaving because his "political base in the Congress" had eroded sounded as if he had been defeated in some policy issue under...
...court's unanimity began to crack with split votes in 1972 on attempts to re-juggle school-district boundaries. The first hint that the balance might decisively tip came last year. By a 4-to-4 vote, the court rejected an appeals court's plan to join Richmond with two suburban school systems for purposes of desegregation; because the vote was a tie, it established no clear precedent...
Scrap Plans. Nixon said that he will seek to hold federal spending for this fiscal year to about $300 billion, or about $5 billion less than present esti mates. But beyond promising to eliminate 40,000 of the Government's 2.8 million jobs he gave no hint of where the cuts would be made. Nixon announced that he has ordered a "sweeping review" of all federal regulatory agencies in order to scrap old rules that hamper production. He said that the nation must "reevaluate" environmental and safety laws, which many businessmen have criticized as being too costly. In private...
...principals finally did meet two hours later, Sisco recalled that Ecevit was a "humanist" who had written poetry in his youth and asked, "How can you think of shedding blood?" Though Ecevit was still maintaining that no decision to invade had yet been made, he replied with a broad hint about Turkey's intentions: "I am convinced that my decision will prevent more bloodshed." He cited the 1967 Cyprus crisis, in which U.S. Mediator Cyrus Vance persuaded the sides to pull back and avoid fighting. "If your colleague had not convinced us to change our minds about military interference...
...banned throughout Franco's rule. The same day General Manuel Díez Alegría, the comparatively progressive chief of staff of the armed forces, was sacked. All during May, General Díez Alegría had regularly received a monocle in his mail-a pointed hint that he should emulate Portugal's António de Spínola and liberate Spain. To foreclose the possibility he was replaced by the more reliable General Carlos Fernández Vallespin...