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...meddlesome foreigner. The heaviest fire has come from the more extreme elements within the ruling Peronist Party. Left-wing legislator Araceli Mendez introduced draft legislation in Congress a few months ago to confiscate the American's vast holdings. The Argentine press has suggested he might be a covert CIA operative securing American access to the aquifer as fears increase of a worldwide fresh water shortage over the coming decades. "He says he's worried about the birds and the wildlife," said Mendez. "But his land is above the Guarani aquifer, one of the most important fresh water reserves...
...instincts have been unerring. Then a freelance choreographer and former dancer, his name was less well-known than that of Meryl Tankard, his high-flying predecessor, who had exited from the company after creative clashes with the board. In his 1995 piece for the Melbourne Festival, Spectre in the Covert Memory, Stewart had already begun his choreographic experiments with strength and power, and at ADT he would take this further, training his young troupe in yoga, martial arts and gymnastics. While Tankard's dancers were known for sailing through the air on ropes, Stewart's seem to defy gravity wholly...
Carlucci has seen firsthand the risks involved in covert actions. While he was at the CIA during the Carter Administration, the agency ran a secret operation to infiltrate and destabilize Marxist-ruled South Yemen. It ended in the execution of twelve agency operatives...
...pointedly noted that he would "certainly envisage keeping the President's chief of staff informed." He immediately sent in a ten-member team to sniff out structural and personnel problems at the NSC. "I want to rebuild the NSC policy-formulation machinery," he said in an interview. Covert operations like the one in Iran, he notes, "are at times desirable," but "all the procedures need to be followed." Unlike his predecessors, however, he does not feel that covert actions should be run from the White House. "There is an appropriate place in the Government designated to run such operations...
...Chairman David Durenberger with more than a hint of sarcasm. Charges continued to fly that Casey was fully aware of the arms-to-Iran operation from the start. North, says a former senior CIA official, "had to have Casey's support" since the director "minutely controlled" the agency's covert activities...