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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the jobs in the general counsel's office are civilian, not military, and the offending Navy regulations apply only to uniformed personnel. The Navy counsel told Bernardi that other Department of Defense regulations about homosexuality that did apply to civilians had been superseded by Congress' Civil Service Reform Act, Bernardi added...
...Soviet missiles targeted on European cities, NATO plans to deploy around the mid-1980s nuclear-tipped Pershing II and ground-launched Cruise missiles with a combined total of 572 warheads. Says Peter Corterier, spokesman for foreign affairs in the West German Social Democratic Party: "For the alliance to act credibly and to negotiate with the Soviets, it must make its decision now to accept nuclear weapons in the European theater. Otherwise, no arms offer has any credibility...
...gets there, all right, but his accomplishment is tarnished. Sent into orbit to inspect a Soviet satellite, Kinsman kills a Russian cosmonaut by yanking out her airhose as they grapple soundlessly in the vacuum. Haunted and horrified that he could commit such an act Kinsman must find out what made him kill another human being without reason. Only then can he bring into space his victory of morality over military training, confrontation politics, and the squandering of resources...all earthbound evil...
...attempts to tell the secret history of the CIA by using his career as a reference point; since Powers portrays Helms only in his Langley office persona, he appears for the most part as just a particularly durable background actor in a play where the cast changes with every act. Aside from a stubborn devotion to career and crustified politics. Helms' colorlessness is his most distinguishing characteristic. He believes he has done his duty and served his country...
...passage is one of the few in The Man Who Kept the Secrets where Helms becomes emotional, where he seems anything more than the competent paper pusher who keeps things moving without rocking the boat. Although it is commonly recognized that the CIA acts on the whims and wishes of whomever occupies the White House, and not as the non-partisan intelligence-gathering organization originally envisioned in the National Security Act of 1947, the crassness of Nixon's attempt to use the CIA for domestic politics apparently struck a raw nerve in Helms...