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Nonetheless, any number of secret messages from Washington to Hanoi while the bombing continues cannot dispel the disturbing notion that the President and his hawkish advisers may still be hoping for a military non-solution...
Shortly before he died at 55 last week in Dallas of a pulmonary embolism, Ruby tried to dispel any doubt about his role. In a surreptitious hospital-room recording describing the events that put him in the basement of the Dallas Police and Courts Building on the morning of Nov. 24, 1963, Ruby recalled: "The ironic part of this is I had made an illegal turn behind a bus to the parking lot. Had I gone the way I was supposed to go-straight down Main Street-I would've never met this fate, because the difference in meeting...
...announced last week that it will ship 900,000 tons of wheat and sorghum to India, to relieve the agonies of that country's second straight year of drought. The emergency allotment will serve to dispel reports that President Johnson has delayed new food outlays because of a fit of personal pique over Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's speeches against U.S. policy in Viet Nam. It will assure the eastward flow of food along the so-called "bridge of boats" until March and feed millions in the northern state of Bihar and other places where the rice crop...
Written largely to dispel doubt, the Report and the accompanying 26 volumes of raw evidence now served to engender uncertainty and skepticism. Epstein demonstrated that the Commission had worked hastily, arbitrarily dismissed testimony that contradicted its overriding conclusion, and given only reluctant and far from unanimous approval to a dubious theory that later proved fundamental in the case against Oswald as the lone assassin...
...effort to dispel some of the more harmful myths about the course, members of the Social Relations Department involved with 120 attacked the review of the course in the CRIMSON,s Confidential Guide as unfortunate, inaccurate, irresponsible and possibly detrimental to the course...