Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...documents painted a far more detailed picture. One plan that company executives had supported was the bizarre "Alessandri formula," in which Jorge Alessandri, a former Chilean President, would receive full but covert U.S. political help and thereby-if all went well-win the vote in the Chilean Congress. Soon afterward he would agree to resign. A new popular election would be called, in which former President Eduardo Frei, a moderate liberal, would, it was hoped, defeat Allende. Under Chilean law, Frei could not succeed himself, and therefore did not compete in the original vote...
MORE political epitaphs have been written for Socialist Francois Maurice Mitterrand in France than for Richard Nixon in the U.S. His current allies, the Communists, once dismissed him as a fascist. The Gaullists have described him as a covert Bolshevik, a shifty opportunist and a Machiavellian operator...
...soon seemed to him that he was involved in more than an example of overzealous journalism. The article was obviously beneficial to Ronald Reagan. More ominous to Alioto was the covert cooperation Look's writers had received from federal authorities in preparing the story. Alioto charged that the writers had interviews with at least two FBI agents and had obtained confidential records from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the U.S. Attorney General's office, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Bureau of Customs. Alioto said that they also had gathered information from intercepted mail...
...because if "he didn't crack during that week, he certainly wouldn't have cracked in office." About the highest praise McGovern got from the group was the mild "I just think he handled it as best he could" view of Willie Peterson, a black student from Covert, Mich. There was, however, a significant feeling among Democrats that the McGovern staff should bear more blame than McGovern for the incident...
...Congressional Black Caucus had to face a barrage of embarrassing questions last week, questions that essentially laid bare the covert attempts of the Caucus to gain the position of power broker for the black masses. The questions came during the two day conference entitled "What Our National Priorities Should Be..." held at Harvard under the sponsorship of the Caucus, the Institute of Politics, the Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The Philadelphia Bulletin...