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...finding a means to have the Federal Government relieve financial pressures on their home states. "It's like sex in a barracks bull session," explained Utah's Democratic Governor Calvin Rampton. "Whatever we started out talking about, we ended up talking about revenue sharing. It's foremost in everybody's mind." It was plain, too, that Nixon has not won the support he wants from the men he expected would back him most...
...personal or political enemies. U.S. intelligence officers suspect that Tri's helicopter was actually downed by Communist antiair craft fire; the government circulated its story of mechanical failure, they say, to deprive the enemy of the satisfaction of having killed one of South Viet Nam's foremost military heroes...
First and foremost: The CRR, although technically the grandchild of the faculty, is in practice an organ of the administration. It is merely a processing and channeling agency. In many ways it is a draft board in reverse. In almost every single case of the more than 250 which the CRR has heard, the complainant has been an administrator. (The only exceptions to this are the charges growing out of attacks on the CFIA. There, Robert Bowie, director of the Center, pressed charges.) The CRR does not decide ultimate guilt or innocence, nor does it examine the issues. It punishes...
...Douglas MacArthur as commander of U.S. and United Nations troops in Korea. The incident caused a turmoil across the country, but the dangerously loud outcries of protest were skillfully muted by Russell's careful, thorough conduct of committee hearings on the incident. Later, as the Senate's foremost spokesman on military affairs, Russell championed anti-ballistic missiles, a strong Navy and new manned bombers for the Air Force. A devout Methodist who had been religiously raised-Russell had read the Bible through twice before reaching adulthood-he once insisted that if nuclear warfare ever reduced the world...
Joseph S. Nye, program director for the CFIA, said, "There is nothing to hide on our part. The question of an impartial format was foremost for us, and now we have that...