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...Nixon White House to approve the use of bag jobs. As one agent explained the rationale: "These Weathermen were bomb throwers. The pressure was on to do something about them. The agents were acting to protect the country." Field agents insisted that records of the approved bag jobs were kept in Washington. If so, they were apparently never brought to Kelley's attention...
...conflict over principles. Those principles were thought to be universal, which was part of the reason for the unprecedented policy of throwing the new country open to all comers. That not only served to make the U.S. a world power in sheer numbers (compared, for instance, with Canada, which kept its population small and has complained ever since about being overpowered by its southern neighbor). It also greatly reinforced the abstract and ideological nature of American patriotism. The millions from other lands and other cultures had different loves for many different plots of earth, languages, traditions. The unifying love...
Essentially, the only result of Italy's most critical election in 30 years was that Communists had been kept from power. The Italian party-largest in the West and independently moderate under its popular leader Enrico Berlinguer (TIME cover, June 14)-so worried Western leaders that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had repeatedly warned Italians against voting Communists into government. Last week Kissinger called the results a standoff and predicted another election within a year. The Vatican, Berlinguer's other relentless foe, was just as concerned. Pope Paul VI last week undertook the revitalization of Catholic lay organizations...
...membership fees from eager bikers and a grant from the Bicentennial Administration, and aided by an army of volunteers, the Burdens charted a relatively picturesque, somewhat historic, largely traffic-free, and not overly demanding route. Since crossing deserts is hazardous, the western end of the trail was kept wen to the north. The North Central plains tend toward macadam monotony, so the route drops south to skirt the Ozarks. To avoid urban sprawl, Bike-centennial is a Baedeker of back roads...
Died. Imogen Cunningham, 93, photographer whose work spans eight decades; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Cunningham got started with a correspondence course in photography as a high school student, opened her own portrait studio in 1910 and kept on track as a young mother in the 1920s, photographing the flowers in her garden. Her portraits, nudes, surrealistic juxtapositions and sensual studies of plants have been seen in scores of shows. She won a Guggenheim fellowship when she was 86 and was still working this year...