Word: informers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regarding your gratuitous credit for inspiration of our CIA exposé [Sept. 13], we wish to inform you that the inspiration came not from Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu but from the widely witnessed overt-covert games of coup promoters themselves, and from some of those who got interesting offers. Many people here believe that if Kennedy is trying to solve his own problems-special forces, brother, religion and social-disturbances-by blowing them up in Viet Nam and then knocking them off with a coup d'état, he will fail on both sides of the world...
Tarts' Target. Stephen Ward, a suave, composed witness in his own defense, said he was only "trying to help" by introducing the girls to middle-aged friends. In fact, though he himself had been the first to inform government and opposition leaders that Profumo had lied in denying his relationship with Christine, Ward said on the stand that he had only "a shrewd idea" that they were actually sleeping together, and was horrified when he learned that cash had changed hands. Ward said he even doubted that Christine had slept with Soviet Naval Attache Evgeny Ivanov. "Like...
Ostensibly, the purpose of the travel ban is to protect Americans; we have no diplomatic representatives in Cuba. But the evidence indicates that the risks involved in a trip to Cuba are minimal. Freedom of movement is a corollary to freedom of speech, to the all-important right to inform oneself. The government's policy on travel to Cuba is an unwarranted invasion of individual rights...
...Duty." The second confrontation came 4½ hours after the first. In midafternoon, Brigadier General Henry V. Graham, assistant commander of the 31st Infantry, an Alabama Guard division, walked up to Governor Wallace and saluted. "It is my sad duty," the general said gently, "to inform you that the National Guard has been federalized. Please stand aside so that the order of the court may be accomplished...
Harvard College is presently designed to inform our common sense, and give us the means by which we can render large masses of complex information comprehensible to ourselves and our community. Our Calvinist forbears, the intended ministers, were expected to interpret for their congregations a God whose universe was governed by established laws; the world the present Harvard undergraduate shall enter is somewhat more complicated. Consequently our common sense--the basis on which we judge things--takes a good deal of time to develop...