Word: intervallic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin was U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam from the summer of 1973 until Saigon's capture by Communist troops in April 1975. He was later criticized, most recently by former CIA Officer Frank Snepp in his book Decent Interval, for mishandling the evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese supporters...
The competing needs for government secrecy and the public right to know have long posed a dilemma for Western democracies. In the U.S., the most recent example is the case of Frank Snepp, the former CIA agent who was ordered by a federal judge last June to turn over to...
Harrington reckons that the moon (which Christy has tentatively named Charon after the mythological boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the River Styx to the underworld ruled over by the god Pluto) is about 800 km (500 miles) in diameter. It lies in Pluto's equatorial...
In another Federal Court ruling, Frank W. Snepp III--a former CIA agent and author of Decent Interval, a rather embarrassing book about the old firm that cited several "secret" documents without agency permission--was told by the court to surrender the money he made on the book, because he...
The case involved Frank Snepp, who spent eight years with the CIA, 4½ of them in Viet Nam. Last November he published a minutely detailed, 580-page book, Decent Interval, in which he charged the CIA with "a failure of judgment at the highest levels" for not trying to...