Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee concluded that the CIA has been operating so secretly as to be beyond the control of Congress and the Executive. Colby held a press conference-the day before the Senate confirmed former G.O.P. National Chairman George Bush as his successor by a 64-to-27 vote. Colby denounced the charge of excessive secrecy as an "outrageous calumny." The report, he said, was "a disservice to our nation, giving a thoroughly wrong impression of American intelligence...
Meanwhile the much criticized CIA received some strong support from President Ford, who spoke at the ceremonies installing Bush as new director of the agency. While saying that the CIA must be prevented from exceeding its authority, Ford declared: "We cannot improve this agency by destroying it. Let me assure you I have no intention of seeing this intelligence community dismantled and its operations paralyzed or effectively undermined...
...troubles, predictions of UNlTA's imminent collapse are exaggerated," reported Hillenbrand. "But the outlook is not bright. An estimated 100,000 members of the Ovimbundu tribe, who make up most of UNITA's support, have already fled into the bush to avoid the fighting. At his front-line rallies, Savimbi urged others to follow. After eight years in the bush as a guerrilla fighter against the Portuguese, he professed not to see any problem with this. 'Mao taught us that a peasant revolution can be successful, but the people have to be willing to suffer,' said...
White Angolans. "But Red Cross officers fear that so massive a retreat to the bush could lead to a new Biafra, with thousands of deaths by starvation. That could be avoided by a political settlement, for which Savimbi is eager. He admitted that he would even accept Agostinho Neto as President of a coalition government, although only if the M.P.L.A. leader gave UNITA an important role. Neto, said Savimbi, is not a true African: if he were, he would understand that the leadership of an African nation requires compromise. 'You never have everybody with you,' he added...
...praised Fair's leathery style in a Playboy article last fall, describing the general as "an admirable soldier" who is "always in bristling motion." But other officers, whose palms sweat when Fair raked them over with abrasive questions, disliked him intensely. To some enlisted men, Fair was a bush-league General Patton...