Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case involved Frank Snepp, who spent eight years with the CIA, 4½ of them in Viet Nam. Last November he published a minutely detailed, 580-page book, Decent Interval, in which he charged the CIA with "a failure of judgment at the highest levels" for not trying to evacuate all of its Vietnamese agents before Saigon fell to the Communists. Snepp disclosed no secrets in his book. But by not letting it be reviewed before publication, the CIA claimed, he broke the contract he had signed when he was hired by the agency...
...Curiouser and curiouser," Alice might have said. In Chicago last week, a black federal judge, heeding the arguments of a Jewish lawyer, ruled that American Nazi Frank Collin and a handful of brown-shirted followers could hold a rally in Chicago's Marquette Park...
...price fluctuations set the stage for a bitter controversy that has raged in Washington for months. Senator Frank Church of Idaho has turned beet red and Senator Russell Long of Louisiana has raised cane in an attempt to boost Government price supports for sugar, now 13.5? per Ib., to 17?. They are opposed by the Carter Administration, which insists that a price floor higher than 14.4? per Ib. would be inflationary. Last week the battle turned ugly when makers of corn fructose (a sugar substitute) accused the Administration of withholding documents needed to prove their charge that Carter...
...were other subjects to pursue. The guest list, first intended to include family friends only, read like a compendium of the Almanack de Gotha and Variety. Among those invited: two ex-Kings (Umberto II of Italy and Michael of Rumania), the Aga Khan, Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia and Frank Sinatra, David Niven and Cary Grant. (Britain's Prince Charles, otherwise engaged, sent regrets...
Astronomer Frank Drake, who in 1960 with Project Ozma began the first serious quest for extraterrestrial intelligent life...