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...limits on what is to be attempted, consider whether the means available match those required, carefully weigh potential benefits against likely costs. All that is much easier to achieve when a proposal is subject to wide debate than when, even inside the Government, it can be discussed only under hush-hush conditions by a tightly limited group of officials. Sloppy planning too often slips by in those circumstances. An inordinate number of covert operations seem in hindsight either to have been doomed to failure, like the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, or to have inherent drawbacks that far outweigh...
There comes a time when newspapers, so relentless in pursuit of wrongdoers in government, find that they have wrongdoers on their own staffs. It can happen anywhere; what matters is what the newspaper then does about it: Does it hush up the story, or go all out to report...
Hart used to complain about reporters' rote descriptions of him as "cool and aloof." But amid the evening hush, as his 727 headed for Washington, he confessed that he is uneasy with street campaigning. He manages the jolly handshaking and baby kissing. But he is ambivalent, at least, about the surging excitement of the crowds, the yearning he sees in hundreds of anonymous faces every day. "Those people are obviously looking for somebody to believe in, someone they can trust." That palpable emotional investment, Hart says, is awesome, even frightening. No matter who the candidate, he says, the crowds...
...Force-run Vandenberg, but it has been reported that the main job on that first flight will be to ferry two satellites into space. Since Discovery will be placed in a polar orbit, its ground track will cover the Soviet Union. One of those satellites could be a new hush-hush communications package, and the other a device equipped with infrared sensors to spot Soviet missile launches. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by William R. Doerner/Vandenberg Air Force Base...
...White, assistant commissioner of the Texas department of agriculture. Maybe so, but how about another slice of birthday cake? Unsure, state health officials in Florida swept grocery-store shelves of some shipments of Betty Crocker cake mixes, Gold Medal flour, Dixie Lily corn grits and Martha White's hush puppies, among other goodies...