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...alleged misdeeds center on a secret multimillion-dollar slush fund operated by the Department of Information when Mulder was Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. According to Mostert's report, some of the funds, intended for a covert campaign to secure favorable coverage for South African policies in the foreign and domestic press, were diverted to dubious business ventures and the personal pleasures of departmental officials. The main schemers were identified as the brothers Eschel and Deneys Rhoodie, who until a few months ago served as Secretary and Deputy Secretary, respectively...
...tangible grievance (in this case government plans for sudden massive food price rises in June 1976) has had a continuing political spin-off. 40,000 letters of protest at a new clause in the Polish Consitution enshrining an 'inviolable fraternal bond' with the Soviet Union, linked with the covert and overt support from the Catholic Church for the WDC dissidents, has placed the regime on an uneasy defensive and proved a potent combination...
...national liberation movements during the pre-independence period in Angola, the U.S. eliminated its chances of playing a constructive mediating role among the various political factions to help bring Angola toward independence through a negotiated, democratic transition. Instead, the U.S. attempted to regain a political foothold in Angola through covert support of the poorly organized, politically suspect FLNA and UNITA forces...
Huntington's return to the Harvard faculty exposes the hypocrisy behind Derek Bok's recent protest against covert CIA recruitment on campus. The Corporation's only apparent request of terror-bombers and assassins is that they function openly at Harvard...
...whether Harvard's cautious approach, based on the ideal of "diversity" will make further significant progress. On one side, "diversity" offers no guarantee that percentages of minorities in the College will not fall below their current low levels while on the other side it offers no protection against covert quota-setting...