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...appointed him Army Chief of Staff. In 1964, President Johnson raised Wheeler to the military's highest post. As Chairman of the J.C.s, Wheeler helped plan and administer the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam and was one of the key figures involved in devising cover stories to conceal President Nixon's orders for the secret bombing of Cambodia...
Largely because of Angola's huge oil and mineral wealth, foreign interests have long been active behind the scenes in support of one or another of the country's three rival liberation movements. But since independence day (TIME, Nov. 24), these nations no longer pretend to conceal their activities. Arms, advisers and mercenaries from at least a dozen countries have been pouring into Angola. Even the aging British mercenary, Colonel Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, 55, leader of the fabled Fifth Mercenary Commando that fought in the Congo during the early '60s, seemed to be gearing...
...assassination of President Kennedy. At issue is a threatening note that Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald delivered to the FBI's Dallas office about ten days before Kennedy was killed on Nov. 22, 1963. Even though the note did not mention the President, FBI officials wanted to conceal the embarrassing fact that they had ignored the threat, so they both destroyed the note and tried to make certain that the commission never found out that it had existed (TIME, Sept. 15). The cover-up was a clear case of bureaucratic self-protection. Nonetheless, it has fanned speculation-mostly wild-that...
MICHAELS'S STYLE and range partially conceal this tension. The stories run from a page to thirty, at one point in stream-of-consciousness imitation of a bourgeois psychotic and at another, in the ostensibly reasonable tones of a well-read intellectual. Humor is consistently sardonic: clever when discussing the posturing of a talentless college professor in his quest to publish his book and vindictive when describing a dinner of the haute bourgeoisie ("Nothing tasted. From course to course I'd swallowed textures, not tastes, like a cat gobbling kill...
Pike is believed to be thinking of running for James L. Buckley's U.S. Senate seat next year, a tough fight he would relish. But for now he is determined to nettle the members of the Administration who would conceal activities Pike thinks they ought to disclose. "Congress might have to revise its own rules to safeguard genuine secrets," says Pike, "but that is Congress's decision to make. The foreign affairs of the nation belong to the nation, not just to the Executive...