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According to its charter, the FBI runs Counterintelligence in the U.S., monitoring the activities of some 1,600 Communist agents; the CIA's work is limited to operations abroad. In J. Edgar Hoover's day, counterespionage was hampered by a lack of cooperation between the FBI and the CIA. "Hoover was difficult and vain," says one former top CIA official. "He thought he could run things by himself...
DIED. Carlos P. Romulo, 86, eloquent Filipino diplomat who was twice his country's Foreign Minister (most notably from 1968 to 1984 under President Ferdinand Marcos), a signatory of the 1945 charter founding the United Nations and in 1949 the first Asian president of the General Assembly; in Manila. A newspaperman before World War II and a Pulitzer prizewinner (in 1942, for a series of articles on the Japanese military threat to Southeast Asia), Romulo served as a brigadier general on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, for whom he coined the rallying cry "I shall return" that followed MacArthur...
There has been money for the infamous ashtrays and hammers. There is money for investigations and even for Air Force transports to fly home the remains. But the charter flight entrusted with 256 lives went to the lowest bidder. Kenneth L. Crowell Canton, N.Y. Death on the Farm...
...killing 520 people in history's largest single-plane accident. In Dallas 134 died when a Delta L-1011 crashed trying to land in bad weather. Another 329 people lost their lives in the midair breakup of an Air-India 747 off Ireland. In December a DC-8 military charter crashed and burst into flames while taking off from Gander, Newfoundland, instantly killing the 248 U.S. soldiers and eight crew members on board. Then, just last week, Singer Rick Nelson of Ozzie and Harriet fame died with his fiancé and five band members in the crash of a chartered...
...that he must recant (which he refuses to do) or no longer be deemed a teacher of Catholic theology. A formal Vatican statement to that effect would end Curran's post at the university, where theologians work under church mandate because graduate religion degrees are granted under a papal charter...