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Murder. The White House, Moynihan charged, had not responded when opportunities arose to dispel suspicion: "This was why I was so concerned at the time about the charge that the Black Panthers were being exterminated. I could get no one, save [Special Consultant to the President] Len Garment, to see how dreadfully potent a charge this was against you. The charge was being made that your Administration was carrying out a systematic plan of political murder designed to wipe out a political party. The charge was groundless, which I could soon enough establish to my own satisfaction. But what...
...Polaroid's ad campaign- designed to dispel notions of apartheid- is only an attempt to calm public outrage," said David Otsen of the African Research Group, a Cambridge-based study organization, at an M.I.T. teach-in last night in the student union...
...read it over the air. It was a memorandum from Turkey's military chiefs: "The Parliament and the government, with their continuing attitude, policies and actions, have pushed our country into anarchy, fratricide and social and economic unrest. Parliament should remain above party politics and consider measures to dispel the sorrow and hopelessness felt by the nation and the armed forces, to put an end to the anarchy and bring about reforms called for by the constitution. If this cannot be accomplished promptly, the Turkish armed forces, fulfilling their legal duty to protect the republic, will take power...
...Your article on welfare was enlightening in several respects. However, a prevalent "myth" you did not dispel is this: so many families on the dole keep right on having children, thus abusing, complicating and perpetuating the deplorable welfare situation...
Wild rumors and extravagant conjectures have always surrounded the financial dealings of one of the world's largest and most reticent organizations, the Vatican. Partly to dispel such speculation, the Holy See has now chosen to lift some of the secrecy covering its investments. Journalist Paul Home, a Rome-based U.S. financial correspondent, was allowed over a period of 18 months to interview Cardinal Vagnozzi and other men who administer the church's temporal wealth. Home's report, in this month's Institutional Investor, a magazine that is highly regarded among professional money managers, tells much...