Word: abels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROOTS OF INVOLVEMENT: THE U.S. IN ASIA 1784-1971 by Marvin Kalb and Elie Abel. 336 pages. Norton...
...accomplishment of Roots of Involvement is to record, in cool temper and spare style, how that hodgepodge developed into the Viet Nam War. The authors are Marvin Kalb, CBS diplomatic correspondent, and Elie Abel, his former NBC rival, now dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. They have combined scholarship legwork to construct this useful chronology. They also offer a thesis: that the Viet Nam War is not an aberration but part of the "inexorable progression" of past misconceptions and blunders, including the desire to bolster France, the general goal of containing Communism, and finally a specific fear...
...think it's important that people at the Ed School get a chance to talk with people who are dealing with education problems in real life," David Able, one of the organizers of the visit, said yesterday. Abel, on leave from the Ed School, is a Robert F. Kennedy fellow who has worked with the Friends Service Committee to help set up the Black Caucus...
There are rumors that a swap may in fact be in the works. Wolfgang Vogel. the East Berlin lawyer who was instrumental in the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, is active in the case. So is Manhattan Lawyer Maxwell Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet during the Eisenhower Administration who has negotiated the release of seven Americans from East Germany since 1965. If the Soviets are determined to bring about a better climate in Berlin, Moscow may try to pressure the East Germans to free the students. But there is also...
...Moscow suburb. Arrested in 1961 while posing as a Canadian businessman in London, Lonsdale was identified as the chief of operations of a spy ring in Britain. In 1965 he wrote a book, Spy, in which he bragged that he was also a communications aide for Colonel Rudolf Abel's famed ring in the U.S. during the 1950s...