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Baker still denies that he kept any of the funds for his own use. He handled the illicit contributions, he concedes, because he was told to do so and because that was the way the System functioned. With a laugh, he recalls seeing one Senator pass $10,000 on the Senate floor to a colleague who had a reputation for righteousness; the recipient overcame his scruples in the time it took to pocket the money. Though he never felt that he was doing anything evil, Baker does consider the ways in which political campaigners are financed to be "a national...
Despite the refereeing, Bruno managed to take the second fall, pinning Gaeto to the mat after delivering one of his murderous death hugs. The match became a battle of the giants as Bruno took on Bepo, the 6'9", 390-pound Mongol. Aided by a few illicit power punches from Gaeto when the referee was distracted, which seemed to be most of the time, Bepo managed to do the impossible-he pinned Samartino and held him for the count. Fortunately, the ref wheeled around in time to see Gaeto sneaking out of the ring, and awarded the match to Bruno...
...these semi-illicit gatherings we attracted such figures as Ramsey Clark, Dr. John Knowles, Norman Mailer, FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, Congressman Morris Udall, Justin Kaplan, literary agent Sterling Lord, Roger Wilkins, William Styron,Professor Howard Zinn of Boston University, and Harvard professors, including Wald, Galbraith, and Riesman. We hosted correspondents fresh from Vietnam, blacks representing all degrees of militancy, students of varied ideological stripes, urbanologists, magazine editors, former ambassadors, and a gaggle of ex-aides to Presidents. These provided the most valuable experiences of the Nieman season and revealed, I think, what the program might become in the hands...
...Plotke goes on to say that the presentation of the paper to the government "amounts to secrecy," and in order "to publicly disclose" this "semi-secret paper" at the present time, "it was necessary to steal it." Mr. Plotke attempts to make something appear mysterious, secret, shady, and possibly illicit when it was in fact just the reverse. When I submitted the paper, AID did not stamp a security classification on it and hide it away in a safe. Instead. copies were distributed to the seventy-five academic and governmental members of the SEADAG Council on Vietnamese Studies and Committee...
...Plotke goes on to say that the presentation of the paper to the government "amounts to secrecy," and in order "to publicly disclose" this "semi secret paper" at the present time. "it was necessary to steal it." Mr. Plotke attempts to make something appear mysterious, secret. shady, and possibly illicit when it was in fact just the reverse. When I submitted the paper. AID did not stamp a security classification on it and hide it away in a safe. Instead, Copies were distributed to the seventy-five academic and governmental members of the SEADAG Council on Vietnamese Studies and Committee...