Word: following
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Almost every new President, fresh from political triumph or flushed with the vibrancy of vast power, thinks foreign policy is easy. He is flattered by other heads of state, puffed up by admiring aides. Deflation inevitably follows. The important thing is not that mistakes are made. They always are. The meaningful point is whether the President learns from them, and how fast he learns. That is the question today about Jimmy Carter. He has had his first seminar with the Soviet Union. More will follow...
Ironically, the Kearney indictment came twelve weeks after the Justice Department dropped its inquiry into the illegal opening of more than 200,000 letters by CIA agents from 1953 to 1973. The outcome of the Kearney case, and others likely to follow, is difficult to predict. When-and indeed if-the case actually comes to trial, notes Washington Attorney Edward P. Morgan, it will still be doubtful "whether an American jury will convict an FBI man for trying to combat terrorism...
...talk she did. In her galloping, heavily accented English, she liked to say: "Banks tell me I am a top business person. They say to me, you have such a mind. The bankers can't even follow." Adela spun sugarplum stories of wonderful "deals" through which she could help people multiply their money by buying land in Spain and selling it for huge markups, or by shipping Japanese cars to Indonesia, or by getting into the import-export trade. And a lot of folks, credulous and captivated, begged to get in on the action...
...indictment--and others that apparently are due to follow--are the product of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation spurred by the revelations emerging from the Watergate hearings. The Justice Department investigators have uncovered evidence that illegal operations were conducted with the tacit approval if not at the direction of high level FBI officials, including former Bureau directors J. Edgar Hoover and L. Patrick Gray III. While Gray and others have disavowed participation in the illegal activities, their testimony is at odds with that of other FBI officials...
...extracurricular activity or is it just a bad dream I'll opt for two of the latter on cissel or is it sissel bubby I can't really believe it but the Ramones are back on tax day and the next day at Salisbury Beach wherever that is follow the shore line I suppose and what did you do during the war wrote rock caps I suppose well buddy you suppose wrong I am your collective conscience the boys you sent off to fight in the trenches and we won't be back til it's over over over there...