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Furthermore, the very earliest photographs in the show, even though they are only a small fraction of the pictures hung, actually are a good selection of early American photography. The Civil War photographs of Matthew Brady, Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, and the Western landscapes of Carleton Watkins, William Henry Jackson, and Timothy O'Sullivan--all in original prints--are wonderful. Some good early American photographers have been left out, but it almost seems worthwhile to lose them in order to be able to see ten 16 x 20 inch contact prints from O'Sullivan...
...files on 10,000 Americans. These allegations were at least partially confirmed by CIA Director William E. Colby in a secret accounting to President Gerald Ford. Colby is said to have told Ford that the CIA had maintained files on thousands of Americans, although he contended that only a fraction were under active surveillance. He also is said to have insisted that when his predecessor, James Schlesinger, became director in 1973, he halted the domestic spying on U.S. citizens, which had violated the law limiting the CIA to foreign operations...
...United States attack the oil producing nations for economic "strangulation" when the U.S. and European business interests have been strangling the Mideast for decades--taking billions of dollars of petroleum wealth for a fraction of its value? American concern for a "fair price" did not stop the Central Intelligence Agency from helping to overthrow an Iranian government that tried to obtain one. The U.S. has also supported and encouraged the dictatorial regimes of the Arab sheikdoms. U.S. economic interests have combined with the autocratic political interests of the Arab rulers to ensure that the Mideast would remain a land...
...Libya, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar?are collecting far more money than they can possibly spend. These six, embracing only 9.3 million people, earned $54.7 billion from oil last year. For all their industrialization and social welfare, their military and foreign aid, they can dispose of only a fraction of that total, leaving a combined surplus of $38 billion...
...subterranean society of professional crime, the fence is an economic necessity. Godfather to rip-off artists ranging from truck hijackers to snatch-and-grab junkies, the fence buys their "swag" (stolen goods) for a fraction of its value and unloads it swiftly at slightly below wholesale to respectable folks eager for a bargain. Though he is the underworld's most visible agent, the fence has generally escaped the scrutiny of journalists, cameras and sociologists. Until recently, that is. In The Professional Fence (Free Press; $8.95), Sociologist Carl B. Klockars offers the latest word on the ancient practice of selling...