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...premier. Pappas is the largest single investor in Greek enterprise, and controls a bloc of industry with a clout like ITT's in the States. During an interview with the Greek newspaper Apogevmatini in 1968, he was asked whether it was true that he belonged to the CIA. His blunt reply reads, "Of course it is. And I am very proud...
...nothing was certain. Though Arab leaders agreed that a meeting of oil ministers should be held to discuss lifting the embargo, they seemed in conflict on whether it should be in Cairo on Sunday or Tripoli on Wednesday. It is unlikely, though, that Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a blunt critic of the U.S., would permit a meeting in Tripoli that was likely to lead to an elimination of the oil cutoff. Algeria, Kuwait and Syria were also opposed to ending the boycott. Some of the other Arab states would probably agree to a compromise-perhaps lifting the embargo...
Even if the Maguire report doesn't totally blunt the opposition, perhaps in-lieu-of-tax payments can be used to make the library somewhat more acceptable to the community...
...General Services Administration this week took action which it hopes will eventually blunt the determined community opposition that has held up construction of the Kennedy Library for almost ten years...
...middle of five daughters, Patty Hearst is stunningly attractive. She was the first of the Hearst girls to decide against going through the deb rituals of San Francisco society, and she recently delivered a blunt critique of the daily Examiner to its editor, who also happens to be her father. Complaining that the paper neglected issues that interest young readers, she said: "Nobody under 80 reads the Examiner any more...