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...thing, blacks have suffered badly during the current economic slump. Their jobless rate of 18.8% is almost double the general level. The Reagan Administration's conservative rhetoric, combined with its assaults on Big Government, activist courts and social welfare programs, have been interpreted by blacks as covert attempts to undermine the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement. Reviewing the record of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since Reagan took office, a bipartisan task force of Washington lawyers charged last week that "the Administration has retreated from well-developed, bipartisan policies that it inherited from...
...most of his life, Edwin Wilson, 54, stayed in the shadows, operating in the twilight world of spies and international intrigue. From 1951 to 1976, he worked for the CIA and the Office of Naval Intelligence, running networks of foreign agents and helping set up covert operations. When he left Government service, he teamed up with another onetime spook, Frank Terpil, and he is now charged with spinning his contacts and skills into a worldwide web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities, chiefly for the regime of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sought by Washington since 1980, Wilson took refuge...
Maybe then, the importance of the coup is the rule the U.S. may have played in bringing it off. If Washington did organize Garcia's overthrow, then it would appear we have regressed back to the covert action days of the 1950s and 1960s. Such a policy gave Guatemala 28 years of military dictatorship and brought about the Bey of Plgs fiasco. And it characterizes the same mindset that led Presidents Johnson and Nixon to he to the American people about U.S. action abroad. We had all hoped that the crisis of integrity our government underwent was scrapped along with...
...Nicaraguans point, for example, to recent revelations that the U.S. is considering financing a 500-man covert paramilitary force whose goal would be to destabilize the Sandinista government. By arguing to crack down on counter-revolutionaries-in the U.S. and declaring it will not interfere in Nicaraguan affairs. Washington should go a long way toward assuaging the fears of the Sandinistas...
...conference committee finishes its tinkering and President Reagan affixes his signature. Under one of the bill's provisions, Kennedy, who had been shown CIA documents detailing Nassar's work for the U.S., might have faced a ten-year prison term for revealing the name of a covert agent...