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...Intelligence sources variously describe the Directorate of Operations as "dead in the water" and "paralyzed." While CIA leaders call such characterizations overblown, other Government officials note that the agency has shown no sign of taking action, which might have been expected in the past, to restrain Portugal's lurch toward a left-whig dictatorship...
...have made gains in Italy, Greece and, most significantly, in Portugal, a strategically vital NATO ally. Last week radical Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves chose a new 21-member Cabinet, including Communist Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal, who is the most rigidly Marxist boss in Western Europe. The further lurch to the left increased fears that Portugal would eventually become a Communist dictatorship. In Washington, Kissinger spoke of "an evolution in which there is a danger that the democratic process may become a sham, and in which parties are getting into a dominant position whose interests we would not have...
After two weeks of intense political infighting, Portugal last week got its fourth provisional coalition government since last April's revolution. The new 21-member Cabinet, headed by Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, predictably confirmed the country's lurch to the left in the aftermath of an abortive right-wing coup staged three weeks ago by forces loyal to former President Antonio de Spinola. Unlike the preceding Cabinet, it has a majority of civilians (14) rather than military men (seven), but it is also clear that Communists and proCommunists predominate...
...described by the report, the My Lai massacre was less an act of intentional cruelty than a macabre happening that, given the circumstances, seemed to be almost ordained from the start. The whole operation began to lurch out of control during the planning stages, when intelligence reports gave "a false and misleading picture of the area as an armed enemy camp, largely devoid of civilian inhabitants...
...will move through five decades of Asian para-history without at any point touching ground or making the slightest sense, there is a lot of dizzy fun in the book. Edward Whittemore is more an engaging long-distance liar than a novelist, and his scheme for persuading literature to lurch forward is simply to introduce another freakish impossibility whenever reason's vague outline is sighted through...