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...banks whose headquarters are in Beirut have now left to settle elsewhere. By the end of last week 4,000 of the 5,000 Americans living in the city had made their way to the airport in armed caravans and filled outgoing flights to anywhere. U.S. Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley ordered all families of American officials to leave. U.S. embassy Marines shifted to battle fatigues; stray small-arms fire ripped the building...
...keep his nastier acts from the public eye. So detente was played up, the bombings of Cambodia were to remain a secret, and the employment of 15,000 to 20,000 Thai mercenaries in Laos, in direct violation of congressional edict, would not be officially revealed until Ambassador Godley testified before Congress while Watergate, too, was under investigation by the Senate...
...Administration had other miseries with Congress last week. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejected Career Diplomat G. McMurtrie Godley's nomination to be Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs. As Ambassador to Laos since 1969, the committee's majority decided, Godley had been less than cleanly. Chairman J. William Fulbright and some others believe that Godley was involved in running a secret war in Laos during his tenure, and was part of a fraternity of Indochina experts responsible for most of the American mistakes there. The committee emphasized that it did not question Godley...
...American official intimately concerned with the bombing recently explained the change: "Sullivan was constantly on the outs with the Air Force. Oftentimes he'd have to go all the way to Washington to do what he wanted. But under Godley, things are much smoother. Everything is worked out here. Basically, he allows them to do what they want on the 'Trail' and in return he gets the aircraft he wants elsewhere. His requests have top priority...
...Godley's tenure has seen a meeting of minds between the Embassy, Air Force and CIA. All are in agreement on the necessity of a widened...