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...than they have to. At a time when Government credibility is in grave doubt, perhaps nothing would restore public confidence so much as release of the information that is now senselessly bottled up in official archives. Some of these mountains of documents might never be read; others might well embarrass the bureaucracy. But at least the Government would no longer be using the secret label merely to avoid bad publicity...
...dominant Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). The capital's police chief, Colonel Rogelio Flores Curiel, also resigned. The resignations followed Echeverría's announcement that the city government would be investigated. The Falcons are believed to have been groomed at city expense as a secret army to embarrass and thwart Echeverria's reformist policies...
...published in the Soviet Union. Despite the fact that all his major works except One Day have been banned in Russia, he felt that there was some hope for the new novel; unlike the other books, it does not center on the crimes of Stalinism, which by implication embarrass Soviet leaders who came to prominence under the old tyrant. Nonetheless, Soviet censors raised many objections. They even insisted, as Solzhenitsyn points out in the postscript, that the word God be printed in lowercase but that KGB (the secret police) be printed in capitals...
...world of men's clubs and board rooms which Pusey, with his Iowa naivete, never quite understood. If Bok is more popular than Pusey, it may not be because he is any more liberal, but simply because he knows his true constituency better, because he will not embarrass them with obstinacy on minor issues, and because he will have their support, and not, like Claudius, have to skulk about his own domain in fear of some treacherous Hamlet in his own camp...
ONLY a few hours before the 15 NATO foreign ministers met in Lisbon last week, a powerful bomb exploded at the city's central telephone and telegraph office, severing communications with the outside world. Later, three more bombs, presumably planted by left-wing terrorists to embarrass the government, went off in the Portuguese capital. The blasts in no way distracted the NATO ministers from an urgent and potentially historic task. That was to formulate a reply to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who late last month called on NATO to "taste the wine" of Russian intentions on force reductions...