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...bolster the Hallinans, Randolph Hearst last week hired F. Lee Bailey, one of the nation's most colorful and successful criminal lawyers. Said Bailey: "I think this is a very important case with many new questions that present a lot of challenges. An apparently normal woman was kidnaped and something happened...
Western European leaders are seemingly less worried than Washington is about the dangers, but they are nonetheless unhappy with developments in Lisbon. In an attempt to bolster the Portuguese moderates, the Common Market has told Lisbon that it cannot expect economic aid until there are assurances that Portugal will become a pluralistic society. Declared West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "We have no interest in promoting a dictatorial development...
Blaming the CIA. Perhaps to bolster the Prime Minister's conspiracy theory, some Indians last week insisted that her political opposition had received support from abroad. Members of the Congress youth wing demonstrated outside the U.S. Information Service library in New Delhi, shouting: "Shame, shame, shame on the CIA." They were parroting the inevitable, automatic cry of Indian pro-Soviet Communist leaders and some Congress Party politicians who have charged that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was linked to the imprisoned opposition leaders...
Ultraconservative in politics and social values, he looked with great loathing upon his sexual desires. To bolster his selfesteem, he says, he clung to racist views. "I kept thinking that if there was someone lower than me on the totem pole, it was not so bad. It was a defense mechanism...
...Brussels with left-leaning Premier Vasco Gonçalves, Ford planned to promise continued U.S. economic assistance to Portugal's moderate leftists. In addition, he will encourage other European leaders to supply all possible aid to Gonçalves' leftist coalition government in an effort to bolster the Socialists, Popular Democrats and other non-Communist leftists who won nearly 70% of the vote in the recent election. The Administration was pessimistic that U.S. and European support of the moderates will block the growing Communist control of the press and trade unions (see THE WORLD). Still...