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...check on him. "We did not want the man's suicide on our hands," Smith says. Yet three days after the story ran, he says, an unhinged and rambling West called him and in the course of the conversation "thanked us for our diligence." Although the paper's covert methods have prompted tut-tutting from some editors, Smith says reader responses have been at least 10 to 1 in the paper's favor...
...focused on proving the existence of covert discrimination by looking at how gender stereotypes influence the way men and women are perceived...
...Director William Colby took the podium to defend the need for covert actions. Joan Mondale, wife of the former Vice President, made the case for government funding for art. Former Representative Shirley Chisholm attacked Reagan Administration cutbacks in social programs...
...culprits were a covert group who dubbed themselves the “Medical Faculty Society.” The society—consisting of patricians in lieu of physicians—wreaked havoc at Harvard for much of the 19th century...
Collins testified that the account was a CIA spy fund that financed covert operations in Asia. The general said that he personally had made only two withdrawals: a payment of $8,654 to purchase intelligence from an informer and an unspecified sum that went to a clandestine U.S. base at which East bloc weaponry is evaluated. Collins, a much decorated war hero who flew 104 missions over North Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos in 1969-70, had described the fund as "a political time bomb," set to go off if its existence were ever made public. The secret account...