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...ADMINISTRATION's self-serving desire to keep the Pike committee report secret, and its extensive use of covert operations to achieve foreign policy objectives, stems from its essential belief that the American public must be prevented from participating in foreign policy decision making, a belief that has guided the conduct of U.S. foreign policy since World War II. The Pike committee report reveals that Kissinger systematically deceived the public on the progress of the SALT agreements. Similarly, Ford and Kissinger claimed that American intervention in Angola was merely a response to massive prior Soviet involvement, while the committee discovered that...
...Ford administration's anti-democratic and covert conduct of foreign policy is unconstitutional; it clearly usurps congressional prerogatives in that area. But more importantly, it represents a fundamental threat to any public control over foreign policy decision making. Americans must be able to determine the ends for which their funds and lives are expended. This is impossible unless they know what the government is doing abroad. The Ford administration, like its predecessors, believes that the purpose of American foreign policy should be the defense of America's status as a great power. This requires the U.S. to defend American military...
...containment policy of the cold war but because he is seeking through tough talk to offset what he considers a damaging U.S. policy failure. (The Soviets promptly stepped up their personal attacks on him.) He defended detente and criticized Congress for interfering too much in the Administration's conduct of foreign policy. "It was clear the pendulum swung too far [toward the Administration] in the 1960s," he said. "It's equally clear it is now swinging too far the other way." While Congress can set basic policy guidelines, he feels it lacks the means for "executing a coherent...
...shirts in Cuba, by toasting the women's movement during a state banquet in Mexico, and by singing a song she had written for the wife of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez in Caracas. When Margaret heard fans of an Ottawa ra dio show complaining of her conduct over the air, she placed a tearful call to the station. "I don't feel I did anything wrong," she said. "If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot...
Whether the decision to evict the students was a justifiable response to the conduct the six were charged with by some House residents in The Crimson--drunkenness, rowdiness, and hazing among them--will not be known unless the students are given a chance to defend themselves against their accusers and the Pians, South House's masters, justify the eviction. Thus far, the incident has only revealed how unfair secret University decisions involving students...