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Chin, who earned at least $300,000 as a spy from 1952 to 1985, offered his remarkable admission in an attempt to characterize his espionage as a personal campaign for reconciliation between his homeland and his adopted country. Of the Nixon document, he said, "I thought if that information could be brought to the attention of the Chinese leadership it might break the ice." It took the jury just 3 1/2 hours to find Chin guilty on 17 felony charges, including six counts of espionage-related activities. Chin faces a possible sentence of life imprisonment...
...closed, Marcos, in a U.S. television interview, serenely declared himself the election winner. Citing unofficial vote counts by the government-controlled Philippine press, he claimed that he had gained some 13 million votes, vs. 11 million for Aquino, a margin of roughly 54% to 46%. Marcos blandly denied any attempt at fraud. An official vote count, he said, would be available in "a few days...
...Haiti adopts the tone that the United States was responsible for the Duvalier dynasty's rule, and that we should now provide aid to Haiti as a form of reparations. I personally think that both charity and self-interest should motivate us to help Haiti; but your attempt to blame this country for the Duvaliers is absurd...
...such a change. Where the existing dictatorial regime is in addition unscrupulous and well-armed, force is also necessary. Can the United States by its own power supply both the force and the political will to change another nation's form of government? Would you not greet an attempt to do so with a scathing editorial on the arrogance of power...
...refusing to air two sides of political issues, are a travesty towards this liberal ideal. In reality, though, Harvard as we are embarassed to say, seems to only permit expression of certain limited political views. It is our hope that with your newly elected staff of editors you might attempt to improve the the situation of imperfect editorial balance...