Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although most of the details are understandably being kept secret, the host countries are all planning to take extraordinary security precautions, working out arrangements with teams of American experts who were touring the region last week. To guard the President, the U.S. Secret Service will reinforce its normal White House contingent by calling in agents from around...
...Committee members, the taps produced no information bearing on security. Since the taps did turn up some political intelligence, the Congressmen are investigating whether part of the rea son for the taps was to gather data that would influence the 1972 election. Two of the Kissinger aides who were kept under surveillance even after they left Government service became campaign advisers to Edmund Muskie...
...Have I kept my promises...
President Bok kept the Leonard committee's report secret for several weeks and has declined to meet with members of the United Committee of Third World Organizations and Faculty members who object to the report. Bok's reticence is inexcusable; the objections to the report are well-founded. The Afro Department is understaffed and desperately needs the research-gathering help an official tie with the institute could provide, in order to increase the quality of its teaching and to attract high-quality black scholars...
Rosovsky is said to be unhappy with the paperwork and the amount of detail his job requires--unlike Dunlop, dean until January 1973, who reveled in the intrigues of exercising power and kept most decisions very close to his vest. Rosovsky doesn't like the constant give-and-take with many different people that such an approach to the job requires. "One of the things that depresses me about this job is feeling like a dentist, with people coming in every half-hour," he said at the beginning of the year...