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...throughout the top echelons of the U.S. Government there is a growing sense of alarm that the congressional investigations of the CIA, combined with repeated press charges and disclosures about its activities, have seriously damaged the agency's effectiveness. Morale has dropped among senior staffers, who bitterly claim they are the victims of a post-Watergate witch hunt. Old allies abroad are wary about cooperating with the CIA, fearing that their secrets will leak, or sources be compromised. U.S. intelligence operations against the Soviet Union have been harmed. Says one White House aide: "We're all paying...
...similar wariness has afflicted the agency's covert and paramilitary operations. The CIA used to propose about 90% of these missions (the rest coming usually from the State Department or the National Security Council). At least twice during the past two years, Government sources claim, the CIA has played a key (but unpublicized) role in defusing potential outbreaks of war in the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean. Now the agency's recommendations have dried up. Intelligence sources variously describe the Directorate of Operations as "dead in the water" and "paralyzed." While CIA leaders call such characterizations overblown...
David E. Sullivan, coordinator of the Cambridge Committee for Voter Registration (CCVR), said the July 1 statute allows "absolutely no discrimination against students" who wish to claim their dormitory rooms as homes for voting purposes...
...veracity of that anecdote may also wish to make a down payment on Waterloo Bridge. As this grab bag of 484 snippets of British literary gossip demonstrates, when the unvarnished truth is lost a lacquered fabrication will do handsomely. Editor Sutherland, a professor at the University of London, may claim to have weeded out proven forgeries and falsehoods. But he readily admits to choosing (when more than one exists) the stylish version of each story, even though "it may have no apparent authority." And why not? As a class, authors may have no more spontaneous wit than plumbers or bank...
...that Lawrence, 68, a Savannah lawyer appointed to the bench by Lyndon Johnson in 1968, had a past history of dragging his feet in deciding employment-discrimination cases. But the appeals court said no. Now the L.D.F. attorneys have gone to the Supreme Court. The "pattern of delay," they claim, means "a substantial nullification" of employment civil rights in southern Georgia, where Lawrence presides. The high court will not even decide whether to decide to take the unusual step of budging Judge Lawrence until October...