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...interest has and will come from equating extensive drug research with large dope rings or their equivalent. If Leary's accounts of his work may be taken at face value-- and there is every reason to suppose that they may, since they have not been in the least covert--his drug research is legitimate clinical psychology. The one, nearly fatal, handicap his research suffers is that it is unorthodox...
...entry. A Lithuanian-born Jew, Soblen expected Israel to let him stay, but Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion bent to U.S. pressures and arranged to send Soblen back in the general direction of the U.S. aboard a flight of the government-controlled airline, El Al. As a result of covert but obvious cooperation between U.S. and Israeli authorities, Soblen was accompanied on the flight by one James J. P. McShane, chief of U.S. marshals, who had flown to Israel to bring Soblen back...
...exact his revenge, Kennedy called upon all his powers as President, including legal retribution, economic reprisal, public threats and covert pressures. Most of all, he used his great political skills to arouse popular emotion for his cause. His theater was to be his press conference, which had already been scheduled for the next afternoon. Most Americans, upon scanning the morning headlines, had known that Kennedy planned to criticize U.S. Steel's decision. But what they heard and saw on television was one of the most savage sustained attacks ever launched by a U.S. President against big business...
...writes Xixon - in a campaign statement. This, says Nixon, compelled him to denounce the Kennedy program as "dangerously irresponsible," even though he had known about the invasion plan and supported it. He says he did this to preserve the CIA secret -and that the statement cost him votes. "The covert operation," he writes, "had to be protected at all costs." The Nixon charge brought an instant denial from the White House. Then the whole incident turned into a historical phantasmagoria when former CIA Director Allen Dulles agreed that Kennedy had not been told of the Cuban invasion plans until after...
...ultimately, that is the only mode of description which can suggest why the diplomacy of the Power was as weak-hearted as it was Daladier as a symbolic figure), why Fascism had so widespread a covert appeal (to, for example, the French bourgeoisie) and negotiations with Russia (by in '34-'35, and by the Central European states and England in '38-'39) were doomed to failure...