Word: coverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...covert U.S. operation slowly spins out of control...
...Communism is destined to end up on the ash heap of history, combined with a presidential call for a crusade against Communism; the Administration's military buildup; official statements and leaked documents suggesting that the Administration is seriously preparing for the possibility of nuclear war; reports of stepped-up covert action by the CIA against Soviet clients around the world...
...three-man panel behind closed doors. But the members, sensing the intensity of Israeli interest in the subject, ignored Sharon's repeated appeals for privacy and continued to interrogate him for 2½ hours. Only later in the day, when Sharon discussed such sensitive matters as the covert dealings between the Israeli government and the Lebanese Forces, the Phalangist-dominated coalition of Christian militias, did the panel members allow him to testify for an additional three hours in private session...
Carter had used his aide Hamilton Jordan to work with two secret emissaries, Argentine Businessman Hector Villalon and French Lawyer Christian Bourguet, in conducting covert negotiations with Iranian officials for freeing the Americans. The talks had often looked promising, but repeatedly failed when the erratic Khomeini refused to order that control of the hostages be transferred from their militant captors to his government. After the rescue attempt, little progress was made until Algerian diplomats agreed to serve as official intermediaries between the U.S. and Iran. Through this channel, complex legal questions involving the disposition of the frozen Iranian assets were...
...thing, blacks have suffered badly during the current economic slump. Their jobless rate of 18.8% is almost double the general level. The Reagan Administration's conservative rhetoric, combined with its assaults on Big Government, activist courts and social welfare programs, have been interpreted by blacks as covert attempts to undermine the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement. Reviewing the record of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since Reagan took office, a bipartisan task force of Washington lawyers charged last week that "the Administration has retreated from well-developed, bipartisan policies that it inherited from...