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Regrettably, however, there is nothing unique about Mr. Swanson's final solution of the Chilean truck driver problem. It simply marks the logical culmination of a systematic campaign to distort the facts about the Allende regime and its overthrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORAL DEPRAVITY | 10/4/1973 | See Source »

...taping seems fair only when all parties to a conversation are aware that their words are being recorded. This may hinder candor somewhat, but so does the presence of a notetaker. When only the President is aware of the listening devices, he is in a position to manipulate and distort the historical record with self-serving or misleading statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: The Battle for Nixon's Tapes | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...highest aides; 2) He had set up his own ominous band of White House investigators, who were so loosely directed that, according to his statement, they used methods of which he did not approve; 3) In his earlier statements about Watergate, he had tried to hide and distort the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE HOUSE: Nixon's Thin Defense: The Need for Secrecy | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

Recent and anticipated technical advancements have whisked us to the threshold of an era of rebuilt humans, of makeshift immortality. Transplants and artificial organs may distort distinctions between man and his fellow man, and man and machine. Suspended animation may create real-life Rip van Winkles. Doctors have already agonized over choices of who to let live. While a poor man formerly had the consolation of knowing his employer couldn't "take it with him," expensive innovations may some day permit a wealthy man to live indefinitely...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: Suspended Animation and Other Delights | 4/27/1973 | See Source »

Besides firms involved with the military, NEAR scrutinizes corporations delivering health care, which Koff claimed now control and distort the system in pursuit on profit...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Group Asks Students to Write More 'Socially Useful' Papers | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

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