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Lethal warships in space. Laser beams fired from orbiting rockets. Satellites zapped out of the sky. It sounds like the script of Star Wars, but according to testimony last week, the Pentagon's top weapons man believes it is perilously close to becoming a reality. Richard DeLauer, chief of...
But then Al Haig's boys got involved, and the whole show went down the tubes. Promising a real-live captured guerrilla who would admit that he was Nicaraguan, had trained in Cuba and Ethiopia, and had fought for the rebels in El Salvador, the State Department called a briefing...
As Tardencillas spoke, the Foggy bottom p.r. squad couldn't help but whisper anxiously in the back of the briefing room and give their uncooperative guerrilla dirty looks. Afterwards, chief spokesman Dean Fischer tried to laugh the whole thing off, acknowledging. "You win some, and you lose some. "But what...
Nixon was as agitated and emotional as I had ever heard him. Talk of his possible impeachment increased daily. He expressed the hope that at a briefing scheduled for the next morning I would tell the congressional leadership about his central, indispensable role in managing the Mideast crisis. He spoke...
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