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...said Air Force Commander-in-Chief General Fernando Matthei. In what looked like a possible crack in the military monolith supporting Pinochet, Matthei claimed that "at no moment were there clashes in the neighborhoods that I visited." Almost simultaneously, retired Army General Roberto Viaux Marambio, a right-winger and hitherto firm supporter of Pinochet, issued an open protest against the government crackdown. "I do not want to keep silent lest it imply complicity," said Viaux. "The armed forces have been employed to repress the call of national protest." The signs of dissension in the military came after a week...
...Korean War and the militant anti-Communism of the early '50s created a climate of fear and vengeance. But there is also ample evidence that the threat of electrocution was tactical. Ethel was arrested shortly after Julius. Federal authorities evidently hoped that the ineffectual-looking engineer would crack quickly if his wife were in jail and his bewildered children left at home. But the Rosenbergs never talked, even though confessions might have saved their lives...
...hungry for audience approval as any Las Vegas comic. "It's a very heady experience when you get people to laugh," says Buchwald. Reagan, of course, spent most of his life performing. There is a humor specialist among the six White House speechwriters, but Reagan is apt to crack his own jokes spontaneously, as he did with mixed success last week...
...that one does not lead." George Bernard Shaw saw the aphorism as the new home for political slogans: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." His contemporary G.K. Chesterton was the last master of the paradox: "Silence is the unbearable repartee"; "A figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition"; "Tradition is the democracy of the dead...
Another company concern is that the IRS will decide to tax the employee benefits in the flexible plans. The IRS has not yet issued a permanent ruling on the practice of exempting most of the funds from taxes, and some firms fear that it may eventually decide to crack down on the procedure. The federal agency, which has been preparing regulations covering the plans, hopes to issue them later this year...