Word: creation
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Both ISA and the special operations group quickly got into trouble over questions of accountability. ISA, indeed, had to fight for its bureaucratic life almost from the moment of its creation. In mid-1981, James ("Bo") Gritz, a retired Green Beret colonel, planned to lead a small group of Americans on a foray into Laos to search for MIAs. Despite warnings, Jerry King insisted on helping him; ISA supplied Gritz with two cameras, plane tickets, parts for a lie detector and, Gritz claimed, $40,000 in cash. The preparations for Gritz's raid are said to have crossed wires with...
...tall, thin ascetic named Bruce Chatwin, a migratory writer fascinated by nomadic peoples and the origins of human nature. His curiosity takes him to Australia, where he has heard that the continent is entwined by songlines, invisible paths that the aboriginals can read like sheet music. According to their creation myths, Australia was literally sung into existence by ancestral creatures. They wandered over the vast land mass during the dreamtime, giving names to animals, plants, hills and depressions. Re- enactments of these legends are the walkabouts, aboriginal cross-country amblings that not only strengthen ties to the old ways...
...well of the lower house, shoving Gandhi supporters, grabbing the notes of a Cabinet minister and creating such a shrill racket that sessions had to be repeatedly adjourned. The dissenting M.P.s, who are outnumbered 4 to 1 by Gandhi's Congress (I) Party, were trying to stop the creation of a parliamentary committee to investigate a government contract with the Bofors arms company of Sweden, which has admitted paying some $50 million into Swiss bank accounts for Indian officials. The opposition claims that any inquiry by a Gandhi-controlled committee would produce a whitewash...
...Sending arms to the Ayatollah is sort of afantasyland of his own creation, and he seems tohave hung on to that longer than anyone else,"Neustadt said
...Robert Lamb, head of the State Department's bureau of diplomatic security: "We've got a lot of work before we can give even an interim judgment." A classified report completed this month by a presidential commission led by former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird is said to recommend the creation of a new elite guard corps...