Word: functioning
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...were an impenetrable secret. Few CIA employees knew more than that the DOD was set up in 1962 with the ostensible purpose of collecting foreign intelligence inside the U.S., partly through East European émigré organizations. Last week the division was accused of having had a more sinister function as well. Three former CIA employees told TIME that the DOD kept a still unknown number of Americans under covert surveillance within the U.S., sometimes at the urging of the CIA's Counter-intelligence Division, sometimes on its own initiative...
...combats the activities of potential enemy agents round the world. It now appears that many of the home-front spying operations, at least in the late 1960s, were actually carried out by the shadowy DOD. An ex-CIA official told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "CounterIntelligence performed mostly a policymaking function where domestic activity was concerned, including helping to decide which groups and individuals should be watched. But it was the DOD that did the dirty work...
...stop production for two or three years and still have more than enough cash to import food, provide free medical care and education, finance new industry and subsidize other Arab nations. But unless and until the industrial nations get together, much of the non-Communist world could not long function without Saudi Arabia's 8.5 million bbl. per day. As Saudi Arabia's Harvard-educated Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani told TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager: "How much can the consumers reduce consumption? By 10%? And how much can the producers reduce without financial pain? By at least 33%?minimally...
...swamp witch messes about with chicken blood and hogs' entrails, and ticks off possibilities. The Good Thing, she cackles, "must be the right function-in' of an organism as it participates in a form, or the fulfillment of a Ideological principle inherent in all matter, or ..." This owlish comedy is a blackface up side-down version of Merlin's routine in T.H. White's The Once and Future King. Merlin, who had all philosophy beneath his pointed hat, kept getting his spells confused. The swamp witch, who seems confused, spouts philosophy as if she were Hegel...
...together the men who really control power in their countries, the heads of government, if we are to take the difficult decisions that face us." Assessing the conference, Italian Premier Aldo Moro said that "the Europe convened here in Paris is a Europe whose mechanisms do not yet function properly. But it exists, and realizes its duty to exist, for itself and for the rest of the world. What prevails is not a blind optimism, but a confidence which is nourished on realism." Giscard called it the "last European summit-or the first of the regular European Councils." He added...