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...month history. Like Decent Interval, the highly critical account of CIA operations in Viet Nam by ex-Analyst Frank Snepp-who happens to be a friend of Stockwell's-In Search was published without CIA permission. It thus becomes the latest entry in what may become a full-blown literary genre: spy-and-tell books by disaffected former intelligence operatives who profess to be turning to their typewriters much more for principle than for profit...
Even to the hardy coxswains born and raised on the windy Charles, the winds gusting to 40 knots were rather intimidating. Rough conditions in the morning worsened during the day, and by the time the regatta was stopped in the early afternoon, three stake boats had blown off their moorings in the supposedly sheltered cove at the start...
After the returns were in and the left had lost, the accusations began to fly in earnest, and not merely over how the party had blown the election. Critics were angrier still over the autocratic attitude of their leaders at a time when the winds of democratic expression and dissent were blowing through the more liberal and independent Communist parties in Italy and Spain. When a party stalwart at one cell meeting in Paris started to pin the election disaster on the Socialists, a disbelieving listener suddenly rose to declare: "It is scandalous that comrades cannot express themselves here." That...
Yesterday afternoon, down at cold, wind-blown Soldiers Field, Sarah (Five-Goal) Mleczko and Sue St. Louis, backed up by a supporting cast of eight, beat the Tufts women's lacrosse team...
LAST WEEK'S Senate ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty marks the welcome completion of an interminably long debate over an issue whose importance has been blown more out of proportion than any in recent memory...