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...cause "indigestion" in Asia. In terms of the economy, this meant government encouragement of industry through such devices as underwriting foreign loans to business. It also involved strict supervision of labor to keep wages low and a heavy reliance on the powerful Korean Central Intelligence Agency (K.C.I.A.) as an instrument of social control. Founded in 1961 and employing an estimated 35,000 people, the K.C.I.A. has gained a reputation for brutality that, to judge from its victims, seems richly deserved...
...allegations that the CIA fostered assassinations as an instrument of policy were to be proved true, the U.S. would be put in rather rare historical company. Although killing rulers and leaders is a human practice that sometimes seems commonplace, it has usually been the work of individual fanatics, rival factions within a nation, insurrectionists, nationalists seeking to throw off external government, or citizens moved to eliminate a tyrant. Seldom have governments set out to kill the principals of other governments as a matter of cool policy, even with the bloodiest provocation...
...part of a church-state struggle, four knights assassinated Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170, believing (with some reason) that Henry II wanted his former friend eliminated. The Reformation brought with it assassination as an instrument of religion, if not foreign policy, especially in the struggle between Roman Catholics and Huguenots in France. Before his accession to the throne, Henry III helped his mother, Catherine de Medicis, plot the assassination of Admiral Coligny and other Huguenot leaders. He himself was assassinated in 1589 by a monk; his successor, Henry of Navarre, a Huguenot who later became...
...great Yankee skipper Joshua Slocum used only the simplest of navigational instruments-a compass, a sextant and his famous "dollar clock"-when he sailed his 37-ft. Spray round the world alone from 1895 to 1898. The solitary skipper of a spanking new sloop called the Oxy will find his life at sea far easier than Slocum's when he sails in a singlehanded race across the Atlantic next year. If he wants to relax and leave the helm, all he will have to do is flip a switch on an electronic self-steering device; day or night...
...many years Cuba has been under the control of an alien power. Under the direction of the Soviet Union, the Cuban regime has become an instrument of the Kremlin's secret intelligence service, the KGB, for spreading the Soviet brand of totalitarianism to other nations of this hemisphere. The regime in Cuba is simply not one of concern to Cubans only, it is of concern to every citizen of this hemisphere because of its intimate links to a hostile foreign power, and because of the ruthless suppression of civil liberties that it seeks to export...