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...groups indicates that the current truce is fragile. Founded in 1888, the A.A.U. is a largely volunteer organization which became the sole authority for certifying American Olympics entries, a right that was and is its primary source of power. The N.C.A.A. was formed in 1906 at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt to make and enforce rules that would reduce deaths and injuries in college football. As campus sports flourished, so did the N.C.A.A...
Despite the resolution, Adams stayed on the scene at the behest of Harlington Wood, assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's civil division. Wood, one of the three negotiators who mediated at Wounded Knee, convinced Wilson to allow Adams to remain. But as the occupation dragged on, Wood was replaced, and Wilson obtained a court order to reinforce the resolution...
John McCone, an ITT director and former head of the CIA, testified last week that he had offered as much as $1,000,000 in corporate funds to CIA Chief Richard Helms and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger at the behest of ITT Chairman Harold Geneen. The money, he said, was to help bankroll whatever plans the U.S. Government might have to "encourage the formation of an anti-Allende coalition in Chile." McCone, who is still a consultant to the CIA, explained that what Geneen had in mind was not to create "chaos," but to channel money "to people...
...fact, he severely limited the FBI's initial probing at the behest of Attorney General Kleindienst and Henry Petersen, the Justice Department's liaison man with the bureau. Gray was convinced that there was no need to try to find out who had originally contributed the $89,000 that financed the bugging. This money had been given by secret donors in Texas to Robert H. Allen, president of Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp. of Houston. To hide the identity of the donors, it had then been channeled through a Gulf Resources attorney in Mexico and was finally sent to Washington. There...
Even in such a relatively benign matter as the release of eleven U.S. flyers shot down over China during the Korean War, John Foster Dulles first urged Hammarskjöld to intervene, then refused to allow their families to travel to Peking at Chou En-lai's behest. As a result the flyers' release was delayed eight months. Chou chose Hammarskjöld's birthday as the time to hand them over...