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...time of the capture that it was a violation of Argentine sovereignty, denied Farago's report and called it libelous. In another installment, Farago quoted a Dr. Horacio A. Perillo, whom he described as the former "chief of Frondizi's Cabinet." Perillo was actually only a low-echelon adviser. But in Buenos Aires last week he was offering newsmen corroboration of Farago's material...
...small professional staff will be recruited to investigate complaints about specific reporting performances. If an allegation cannot be resolved by mutual consent or by a lower-echelon complaints committee, the full council will hear and rule on the matter. The findings will have no legal or binding force; the hope is that wide publication of council opinions will give the organization moral authority. These procedures are modeled on those employed by Britain's press council...
...inchworm approach to a settlement has been more cautious than his own progress through his country's Communist Party. Born in Nam Ha, North Viet Nam, the son of a middle-echelon official in the French colonial administration, Tho found foreign occupation so intolerable that at the age of 20 he became a founding member of the Indochinese Communist Party. By 1945 he had been appointed to the Central Committee, and in 1949 was sent to South Viet Nam as the second man in charge of reorganizing Communist political and military activities. His superior was Le Duan...
...Valachi, it will be recalled, was a Brooklyn hood of the lower echelon who sang arias for the McClellan Committee in the fall of 1963, giving the general public its first peek into the intricacies of the Cosa Nostra. Peter Maas's bestselling Valachi Papers was based largely on the testimony, and the movie, if we are to believe the screen credits, is based upon Maas's book, although it could just as easily have been lifted from Dick Tracy's Crimestoppers Textbook. The entire cast, in fact, look as if they were drawn by Chester Gould...
Over five million black people are ruled by a tiny group of white bureaucrats from Lisbon. Although many blacks hold lower echelon government posts, all of the decision-making power is in the hands of the whites...