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Holding Back. This increasingly public aspect of traditionally secret operations has changed U.S. relations with both friends and adversaries. There is evidence of increasing reluctance on the part of allies to share secrets with the CIA. Says Ray Cline, the agency's former deputy director for intelligence and now a director of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "In the old days, people in allied outfits competed with each other to have a close relationship with the CIA because it cast credit on them with their bosses. But now a close relationship can be more...
...pressures in the future, other than to admonish both Presidents and directors to adhere strictly to the CIA charter. The exhortations struck many experts as worthless. As one Rockefeller commission staff member put it: "You need oversight of the presidency more than you need oversight of the CIA." Ray Cline, a former CIA official and director of intelligence for the State Department who knew both Johnson and Nixon, noted: "They were very strong-minded men. A director of Central Intelligence who said, 'Go to hell' to one of them would not have been director of Central Intelligence next...
...sunny morning last week, 2,890 miles, 35 hr. 53 min., and one $250 traffic ticket away from East Side Manhattan's Red Ball Garage, Rick Cline and Jack May parked their pockmarked white Ferrari Dino in front of the Portofino Inn in Southern California's Redondo Beach. Having shaved one minute from the previous transcontinental record, the partners became undisputed holders of the 1975 Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash...
...Erwin George ("Cannonball") Baker, a fabled driver who made it crosscountry in the late '20s in 60 hours, last week's participants made no public nuisance of themselves, suffered no loss of life or limb, and racked up a total of only twelve tickets. To Winner Cline, the worst hazards after rain and a sandstorm were unwary rabbits. "I got one at 130 m.p.h., and another at 140 m.p.h., but it was the one at San Bernardino that did us in," he said, pointing to a cottontail crater on the Ferrari's fender...
Radcliffe's varsity lights will shape up with Mizzy Stokes at stroke, Antoinette LaFarge at seven, Eugenie Steele at six, captain Dottie Kent at five, Janet Mazur at four, Margaret Hunt at three seat, Roxanne Malenbaum at two and Marsha Cline at the bow. Barbara Pierce will handle the coxswain duties...