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Jackson's charge touched off a furor in Washington. It not only portended a potentially explosive political debate for 1976 but also went to the heart of an apparently inevitable future historical argument over how South Viet Nam finally was lost. Ford and Kissinger seemed to be setting up a theory that they had been stabbed in the back by Congress in their efforts to keep Saigon alive. Jackson seemed to be saying that Nixon and Kissinger had made a secret commitment to President Thieu and had deceived Congress about...
Despite the furor he had stirred, Rockefeller said later that in similar circumstances he might plunge into the fray again. The U.S. Senate has obviously not heard the last...
...that he could not have made a mistake on some math problems on a test because an accounting major had worked out the answers for him in advance. But now the cheating scandal at the University of Florida is out in the open, and the campus is in a furor...
...Blass, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, but simply a moment in the history of fashion. "It's a musical montage-type thing, starting with a naked Eve and back full circle to almost naked in a string bikini," explains Juliet. There is apparently no danger of a network furor over Eve sporting nothing but an apple. After all, says Juliet, "we see so much on TV these days...
...Director William E. Colby and his predecessors, and would next "go into details with [the CIA] staff." Asked if the commission had found "extensive illegal spying," Rockefeller cautiously replied: "I would not say that what you have just said would be the impression left so far." Nonetheless, the furor over the CIA, FBI and other intelligence-gathering agencies was not likely to end until the Senate committee finishes its probe by the Democrats' proposed deadline of Sept. 1. At the very least, the committee is expected to recommend better congressional oversight of the agencies and legislation to ensure that...