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Asked by Frank G. Carrington, executive director of Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, whether he would prefer to have people killed in a bombing over having an FBI informer in a political group, Countryman replied, "There are worse things than having some person killed--(for example) having a whole society intimidated...
...Times described Carrington as a "patently pro-FBI participant at the conference...
...sell military secrets. "It's not for me to say that one shouldn't spy," a top member of the Foreign Office told TIME last week, "but there are limits of decency even in that sort of activity." At a meeting of Heath, Douglas-Home, Defense Minister Lord Carrington and Home Secretary Reginald Maulding, the government decided on the mass expulsion...
...offer out of the British at all took some doing. When Rolls was nationalized, the ruling Tories threw out the Lockheed engine contract. The U.S. Government, determined to keep Lockheed alive as a defense contractor, applied heat to the British at the highest levels. Eventually, in negotiations with Lord Carrington, the Tory Defense Minister, and other British officials. Haughton got the costly offer to save the project...
Heath did not quite make it. From the overstuffed red woolsack,* the Lord Chancellor announced the vote: "184 lords are content, 193 lords are not content." The government had lost by a margin of only nine votes, far fewer than predicted. Shaken, the Lords opposition leader, Lord Carrington, immediately indicated that Conservatives would let the order through without delay if the government reintroduces...