Word: dones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of our courts see it as fair and just to execute murderers [April 16], then, logically, it would follow that it is fair and just to steal from thieves and rape rapists. I can't imagine what would be done with pot smokers or pornographers...
...Prince Norodom Sihanouk had "acquiesced" in the U.S. bombing raids and in fact "encouraged" U.S. intervention.* Shawcross calls that "questionable." Sihanouk himself, who was overthrown by General Lon Nol just two weeks before the U.S. invasion in 1970, told Shawcross that there was nothing he could have done about either the Vietnamese bases or the U.S bombing. But Sihanouk's doomed effort to keep Cambodia neutral, Shawcross believes, was the right policy in terms of Cambodia's own interests...
...Press Secretary Jody Powell home to say that his article had been misinterpreted, Powell had only one question: "What in God's name do you think you're doing?" Groused another aide: "If you talk to Fallows, he'll tell you he thinks he's done something good, decent, honorable and right. Bull!" Added a third: "Fast-buck journalism." Carter has read the article and declined public comment. As for the aides who accuse Fallows of disloyalty, they may be even more enraged by the next issue of the Atlantic. A second installment reportedly will focus...
However, Loeb said he believes Ronald Reagan has the most integrity of any potential presidential candidate. "Above all, he can go on television, tell his story and convince people of what has to be done," he added...
...contemporary America. With the balance of power no longer as securely in America's favor as it once was, there may be little time left to get back into the intelligence business in a decisive way. Unless such a change is made, the damage that has been done by crippling the CIA may far outweigh the damage caused by the excesses of the agency when it was riding high and unchallenged...