Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With high drama, the Senate shut its ;all wooden doors for a secret debate on the latest hurdle facing the Panama Canal treaties: charges linking Moisés Torrijos, the brother of Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos, to heroin smuggling in the U.S. Called at the insistence of Kansas Republican Robert Dole and other treaty opponents, the two-day session attracted as many as 70 Senators, practically a mob in Capitol Hill terms. But when the doors reopened at midweek, after 14 hours of testimony and discussion, the great drug drama turned out to be something of a bust...
When I told Nixon in 1972 what I knew of that breakin, he instantly voiced his approval of it. I heard him instruct an Assistant Attorney General not to investigate it. After I was fired in 1973, I had a talk with Nixon about the fate of Egil Krogh, who was then being prosecuted for his part in the Fielding breakin. I urged Nixon to pardon Krogh, on the ground that the young man had been involved in an effort which I had heard Nixon expressly ratify. Nixon readily agreed that Krogh should be pardoned. Somewhere on a tape...
...commando team and ordered it sent to Larnaca. Cairo merely informed Kyprianou that "we have people on the way to help rescue the hostages." Clearly, Sadat was preparing for an Entebbe-like raid. When the Egyptian transport arrived, Cypriot officials were stunned to discover that the "helpers" were Commando General Nabil Shukry and his assault team. Most were wearing combat suits. For some unexplained reason, several commandos were disguised for undercover work, some in sport clothes, a few in bell-bottom denims and platform shoes...
...colleges, has voted to divest itself of stock valued at $6 million. Tufts University has sold $200,000 of stock in Citicorp, a holding company that through its First National City Bank has made loans to South Africa. The University of Wisconsin has been advised by the state attorney general to sell $9 million worth of holdings in companies with South African subsidiaries, as well as stock in any firms with Saudi Arabian and Soviet connections. The reason: state law forbids any state agency to invest in companies that discriminate...
Most colleges are leery of hastily unloading their holdings. In response to student pressure, many have instead established policy committees that compare the affirmative-action policies of each company with a set of guidelines established by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black civil rights activist and General Motors board member. After such studies, Smith College, for one, kept most of its disputed stock but sold 42,000 shares of Firestone because, says the college, the company failed to give an adequate account of its South African policies. In another approach, the University of Minnesota is pressuring companies directly by introducing...