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Like the Austrian minister who became his greatest political hero, Kissinger has used his position in government as a protective cloak to conceal his larger ambitions and purposes. Far from being the detached, objective arbiter of Presidential decision-making, he has become a crucial molder and supporter of Nixon's foreign policy. Instead of merely holding the bureaucracy at comfortable arm's length, he has entangled it in a web of useless projects and studies, cleverly shifting an important locus of advisory power from the Cabinet departments to his own office. And as confidential advisor to the President, he never...

Author: By "the MEANING Of history", | Title: The Salad Days of Henry Kissinger | 5/21/1971 | See Source »

...faces trial for responsibility in the deaths of 100 villagers, and for two specific murders. Medina said yesterday that he was innocent of the charges because he had neither given nor received orders to have the inhabitants of My Lai killed. Medina also denied having participated in attempts to conceal the My Lai massacre...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: Medina Comments on Calley's Conviction | 3/31/1971 | See Source »

...11/12/70 MRS.-Chief Switchboard Operator,-(conceal identity due to position at school) advised she has only limited contact with-who she is aware is in the-Department there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorandum | 3/30/1971 | See Source »

...Harilaos ("Betsy") Theodoracopulos. He specified mirrors on walls and ceilings to "stretch the room out and at the same time heighten it." For surfaces, he used scrubbed stone "because of its rough, aggressive element which contrasts with the smoothness of the mirror." Many of the wall mirrors conceal storage closets. To Mrs. Theodoracopulos, the bathroom is "like fairyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: How the Other Half Bathes | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

...have no desire to conceal anything," Dunlop said about the McNeil case. "Some statements have been made tonight that I have never heard before. I'm prepared to take them at face value." Dunlop promised to make a public report on the facts...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier and Patti B. Saris, S | Title: SDS Attempts to Confront Dunlop at Currier House | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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