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...Secretary of State managed to trigger a worldwide uproar. In a lengthy Business Week interview, Kissinger responded to a question about possible U.S. military intervention against the oil producers by cautiously noting that this would be "a very dangerous course." But then, using a complicated-not to mention cryptic-triple negative, he added: "I am not saying that there is no circumstance where we would not use force. But it is one thing to use it in the case of a dispute over price, it's another where there's some actual strangulation of the industrial world...
Nixon's trauma last week in Memorial inevitably brought to mind his initial, cryptic refusal two months ago to enter a hospital: "I'll never come out alive." He had finally, of course, yielded and spent twelve days in Memorial in late September and early October for treatment of phlebitis, the painful inflammation of the veins in his left leg that has bothered him off and on since 1964. It could at any time cause a fatal blood clot to travel upward in the bloodstream through his heart to the lungs...
...severely beaten by her abductors. Finally, a piece of evidence was made public last week by the San Francisco Chronicle that undermined the theory. The newspaper reported that three weeks before the kidnaping, local police found a green notebook in which an unidentified S.L.A. member had jotted down these cryptic references to Patty: "At U.C.... daughter of Hearst"; "Junior?art student"; "Patricia Campbell Hearst... the night of the full moon of Jan. 7." Randolph Hearst called the notebook "unquestionable proof that his daughter had "in no way" arranged her own kidnaping...
...White House gumshoe, Anthony Ulasewicz, a former New York City policeman, conducted 54 investigations for the Administration, some seemingly legitimate but others highly questionable. For example, according to a cryptic memo, he investigated allegations that the President's nephew, Donald A. Nixon, had been "involved in improper conduct, that drugs were involved, and love-making groups at Three Forks, Sierra Madre. Also concern of bribery." There was no indication of what Ulasewicz turned up. But in another case he looked into a "wild party" supposedly attended by Senator Edward Kennedy and decided that the allegation was "unfounded...
...based on unfavorable but unchecked information. (Some credit-bureau employees admitted that investigators are afraid of losing their jobs if they fail to turn in any unfavorable material about a subject; they occasionally fabricate negative information.) Many complaints involved the improper release of military records-in most cases, from cryptic, numbered coding on supposedly honorable discharges-and the illegal disclosure of bank data...