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...citizens should be publicly discussed and any unlawful action should be revealed. On the other hand, there are some areas that must be handled in executive session, such as covert operations abroad, the revelation of which would injure our relations with foreign governments or impair sources of information or imperil agents in the field...
...Plumbers. The Pentagon's snooping occurred in 1971, when the Administration was engaged in a series of delicate foreign policy initiatives-an open-door policy with Peking, arms talks with Moscow, parleys with Hanoi to end the war in Southeast Asia. Fearing that publicity might imperil these negotiations, Nixon and his national security adviser, Kissinger, resolved to keep them secret. Not even Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers were to be fully informed...
Another new Vermont law requires developers to meet a long list of environmental requirements before they can turn their first shovelful of dirt. For example, a subdivider who wants to build on a floodplain must now prove that his development will not imperil the health, safety and welfare of the public during a flood...
...University will also fight a proposed tax reform bill which would imperil 40 per cent of the funds received from private financial donations...
...Communist crusades, a national war of liberation. On ideological grounds, Hanoi clearly qualifies for an extraordinary amount of comradely assistance, and has received it partly because Russia wants to keep North Viet Nam out of Peking's orbit of influence. But an overly harsh Soviet reaction would imperil its more important prospects of improving relations with the capitalist West-and might lead to a military showdown with the U.S. in a part of the world where geography does not work to Russian advantage...