Word: franked
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...warrior advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, don't see it that way. They believe the Cuban presence in Angola and the Soviet aid to MPLA are part of a grand Soviet design to extend its influence in southern Africa. Carter has been squawking recently about the Congressional amendment, sponsored by Sen. Frank Church (D-Ida.), which bars U.S. intervention in southern Africa. Carter says the amendment "ties my hands" and cuts down his options. But the option that Carter is apparently considering is support of UNITA in its South-African-supported guerrilla war against MPLA in southern Angola. This would in effect...
...controversy over the warplane sale might never have come to the Senate floor at all if Frank Church, the Foreign Relations Committee chairman-to-be, had not backed out of an agreement to support it. The story of how and why Church changed his mind provides an illuminating view of Congress at work. TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil reports...
...began on April 11 in the gracious apartment of Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. For dinner that night, he and his wife entertained Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Senators Frank Church and Ted Kennedy and Scotty Reston of the New York Times. Over duck à I'orange, the men had a free-flowing talk about the nation's foreign policies, including the newly announced plan to sell military aircraft in a package to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, a matter already causing intense debate...
...doubtful that any Bakke decision will have much effect in cases where judicial findings of discrimination have already been made. One example: Boston Federal Judge Frank H. Freedman's order banning hiring of white firemen until the percentage of blacks and Hispanics approximates their 23% ratio in the Boston population. Nor is there likely to be much impact on voluntary affirmative action programs that focus on equal rather than preferential treatment. Still, notes one Justice Department official, lawyers asked to help set up affirmative action programs are "telling their clients to sit tight" and wait for the Bakke decision...
ALONG WITH THE CHURCH and Pike committees' reports, the books by Philip Agee, Marchetti and Marks, and Frank Snepp, Stockwell's revelations flesh out a truly scary picture of the CIA, outwardly vicious and bungling, inwardly paranoid and clubby. The things a CIA operative in a foreign country worries most about, Stockwell says, in order of importance, are the local U.S. ambassador and staff interfering, restrictive cables from CIA headquarters, local gossips in the neighborhood, the local police and the press. Last of all is the KGB, the Russian intelligence agency...