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...reasons, and nothing happens [in Greece] that the American CIA does not know about. The 1967 coup was engineered by the Greek counterpart of the American CIA. There is no doubt about U.S. awareness of what was happening, and I think it would be better for the Americans to confess that it was an error for them to have been involved. Now the question is: Who was behind the Cyprus coup that overthrew Makarios? Evidence is difficult to get, so it is anybody's guess. People naturally suspect those who have backed the tyranny of the past seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Mavros: Greece's Bitter Voice | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...figure out that one of them, the more "liberal" of the two, was Amos Kenan, the Israeli writer who serves as the Zionist apologist to the liberal/left press. The other one I think was Yehoshofat Harkavi, a right-wing Middle East specialist from Tel Aviv University, although I confess I'm not completely positive...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: A Breach of Promise | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

Nixon, Ehrlichman said, would get the credit if Mitchell would only confess his guilt to the U.S. Attorney. But Mitchell proved to be too shrewd to say anything that would incriminate himself. According to a transcript of his conversation, he denied his own guilt and accused the White House of responsibility. "Well let me tell you where I stand," he told Ehrlichman. "Uh, there is no way that I'm going to do anything except staying where I am because I'm too far, uh, far out. Uh, the fact of the matter is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Evidence: Fitting the Pieces Together | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...Haynes and the Hip Ensemble are next door at the Jazz Workshop. Haynes is a superb jazz drummer who has played with all sorts of greats (John Coltrane, for example), but we must confess we have our doubts about how interesting it can be to listen to somebody play drums for two hours. If you think drums can work as a lead instrument, by all means go; if anyone can pull it off it's Haynes. Though Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 7/19/1974 | See Source »

...Lenny Bruce, hypocrisy was the prime obscenity. He wanted to exorcise it publicly. He wanted the hypocrite in each member of the audience to confess and condemn himself. He was a messianic imp of the perverse who wanted to cleanse souls through blasphemy, to free language with four-letter words, to restore nudity and copulation and natural bodily functions to the innocent purposes of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Imp of the Perverse | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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