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...international order no longer hold, "the only feasible countervailing power to OPEC's control of oil power is power itself--military power," in the immortal wordes of "Miles Ignotus" (Latin for unknown soldier), described by Harper's as a "Washington-based professor and defense consultant with intimate links to high-level US policy makers" and rumored to be the pseudonym for Edward Luttwak, a well-known conservative "defense" intellectual close to Washinton's defense and "intelligence community...
...agents particularly vulnerable to terrorist acts." Many point to the murder of Station Chief Richard Welch by assassins in Athens in December just a month after his name appeared in the Athens News, an English-language daily. As a result, the U.S. has placed round-the-clock bodyguards on high-level officials in Greece. In Paris, CIA staff have reportedly taken to toting guns and traveling in unmarked. rented cars. But in most other capitals, the exposure created little excitement, and special security measures were soon dropped. Nonetheless, said Senator Frank Church, "I don't think former officials...
There were, however, many also-rans. President Ford ranked among them. For the first few months of the year, his popularity grew as he showed that he could live easily with power without resorting to the imperial pretensions and devious actions of his predecessors. Generally, his high-level appointments were impressive. After enduring the humiliation of the collapse of Southeast Asia, he directed a spirited if overdramatized rescue of the Mayaguez from the Cambodians. Since then it has been downhill, as he was perceived by many as just not being up to the job. Trying to improve his standing...
After Carey lowered the boom on him, Nadjari reacted with characteristic toughness. He refused to resign. Instead, he called a press conference and strongly suggested that Carey was trying to protect high-level Democratic cronies. These Democrats, Nadjari said, were the targets of a nearly completed probe into "the hard core" of corruption in the upper reaches of the justice system. Indictments in the case, he added, could be delivered this month. Said he: "The closer I get to the hard core-and I tell you that I am close, closer than I have ever been-the greater the abuse...
...Havana, Western sources say, there is "demoralization and discontent" among high-level military and civilian officials over the Castro regime's commitment of regular army troops to fight in a foreign conflict. Indeed, a Western official reports that Cuba sent the troops to Angola only "with the greatest reluctance and as a result of Soviet arm twisting." The Soviets feared that the M.P.L.A. would be unable to use the sophisticated weaponry that Moscow was supplying. Since the Russians were unwilling to send in troops themselves, they pressured the Cubans into doing so. But the Cubans have suffered considerable casualties...