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Citing the United Nations charter, Moore said Cuban and Nicaraguan action in E1 Salvador "constituted armed attack" and that "article 51 allows fighting back in self-defense...
Since the Organization of American States, of which the U.S. is a member, provides for mutual defense, the U.S. "had a duty or a right to respond [to Nicaraguan secret wars] and uphold the OAS charter...
Traveling around the world, orchestrating his vast air armada, Doole kept his airplanes busy. Under the cover of legitimate freight and charter services, Doole's airlines supplied a 30,000-man secret army in the mountains of Laos for a ten-year war against the Pathet Lao, dropped scores of agents into Red China, and helped stage an unsuccessful revolt in Indonesia. Not surprisingly, all this flying about aroused curiosity. In 1970 a New York Times reporter asked Doole if Air America had any connection with the CIA. "If 'someone out there' is behind all this," Doole airily replied...
...trademark yellow, to announce her agenda for reviving democracy in the Philippines. Scrapping the 1973 constitution introduced by her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, and dissolving the effectively powerless National Assembly dominated by Marcos' followers, she imposed a provisional constitution that allows her to rule by decree until a new charter is agreed upon. Within 60 days, Aquino promised, she will appoint a committee to draft a fresh constitution. Three months after that, she hopes to put the document to a national plebiscite. If all goes well, a new legislature will be in place within a year. In the meantime, said Aquino...
...proposed increases, which have generated little debate so far, passed before the council twice this year as required by the city charter. But City Councilor David E. Sullivan last week requested a report from the city manager outlining recent salary increases for other Cambridge employees...