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There is, though, a big difference. While Mayor White went public and ran (unsucessfully) for governor, Flynn's ambitions are more covert--he just wants to be appointed, not elected...
...into dealings with drug dealers, prostitutes and homosexuals. The plan for dirty tricks, apparently never carried out, was uncovered by the Goldstone commission on violence, which is looking into abuses by South African security forces. In 1990 De Klerk declared that he was putting an end to all such covert operations...
...take his well-publicized emphasis on pro-work welfare reform. A covert way of pandering to white rancor? Funny, nobody thought so when Jesse Jackson was calling for such measures in 1988. Contrary to popular belief, welfare payments -- including Aid to Families with Dependent Children and food stamps -- make up only a tiny fraction of the federal budget, around 3%. Reform designed to promote work, not dependence -- combining earned-income tax credit and measures to promote, or at least not penalize, savings -- would cost more, no question. Yet there is good reason to think that Americans, who are skeptical...
...year-old Arizona dress-shop owner first came to the attention of the national press in 1982, when he claimed to have taken part in a covert mission into Laos the previous year. Barnes' story: his team found two American soldiers in a Laotian prison camp but were unable to rescue them. The team radioed the CIA's headquarters, and the agency ordered them to kill the men. ABC's Nightline planned a three-part series on the story but later dropped the project, as did the Los Angeles Times, which sent two reporters to Thailand in a vain effort...
Does this sound too conspiratorial to be true? On August 25, 1986, the Wall Street Journal cited an unnamed Administration official saying that the U.S. was beginning a covert military operation to subvert Khadafi. The three major television networks picked up the Journal's story and repeated its assertions. When European allies became nervous, U.S. officials publicly backed off from this policy, but the idea had already taken hold throughout the world--and presumably with Khadafi himself...