Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by MARTIN SCORSESE Screenplay by PAUL SCHRADER...
...Martin Etter is a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, studying social anthropology...
...Despite CIA objections, Graham A. Martin, then U.S. Ambassador to Italy, secretly paid $800,000 in 1972 to Vito Miceli, a right-wing general who headed Italy's military intelligence agency. The money was to demonstrate U.S. support of Italian antiCommunists. According to a story in Turin's La Stampa, the $800,000 for Miceli was small potatoes: the paper claimed that one of its reporters had obtained secret documents from Pike's committee showing that the CIA had given Italian political parties $74 million from...
Tough Standards. Ford insisted he had been doublecrossed. In the House, a dozen Republicans rose to protest the committee's bad faith. North Carolina's James Martin was so furious he sputtered: "Holy mackerel, Mr. Speaker!" The senior Republican on the Pike committee, Robert McClory of Illinois, protested: "What agency do you think will provide us information if it thinks we cannot be trusted...
...Walden Puddle Commune and an armchair liberal who spends much of his time, quite literally in an armchair, sampling the world's lunacy from television newscasts. He seems to have a gift for the mal mot, telling a menacing group of black separatists, "Hey, ol' Martin Luther King was one heck of a fellah, wasn't he?" or informing a $65,000-a-year rock entrepreneur in California that "back East you 'Frisco hipsters are kind of legendary, living off the land the way you do." Among other communards and coconspirators...