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Black people, L.A. State Senator Mervyn Dymally told the McCone commission investigating the Watts riot, "generally expected the worst from the police?and generally received it." Even after Watts had been pacified in 1965, Parker could not help exulting: "We're on the top, and they're on the bottom...
...willing or ready to be turned around. Concern over "rewarding" Negro rioters could still result in a series of repressive measures by Congress. One such, an antiriot bill passed by the House, is pending in the Senate, where the Judiciary Committee last week heard former CIA Director John McCone ad mit that a check on incitement might sometimes be helpful. However, McCone, who headed the presidential commission that investigated 1965's Watts riot, warned that antiriot legislation would be no panacea. "What worries me," he said, "is the climate that might prevail in the country. I feel very deeply...
...seek or the cogency and wisdom of their arguments." In history and memoir, which fortunately occupy the bulk of the book, Hilsman is pungent and direct in his appraisal of men and events. Defense Secretary McNamara is described as "almost totally lacking in self-doubt," former CIA Director John McCone as a man with "a rough and ready sense of decency" that redeems his "streak of the alley fighter...
...heads CIA. Although he has been with the agency since its start, no CIA chief ever came into office with such a passion for anonymity and downright disdain for public acclaim. His predecessors assumed the directorship after long public exposure in Government (Allen Dulles), industry (John McCone), or the military (General Walter Bedell Smith and Admiral William Raborn), with tangible accomplishments and medals to show for it. Richard Helms? He had a 1965 award from the National Civil Service League, the sort given annually to groups of career bureaucrats, for "significant contributions to excellence in Government." But who could...
...observers in California think so, but some marginal restrictions on student activities seem to be on the way. The governor-elect has asked John McCone, a former CIA head who reported on the Watts riots for the Johnson administration, to choose 15 prominent men willing to serve on a committee to investigate controversial student problems at Berkeley. The University's Board of Regents, Reagan proposes, would then pick five from the group who would write a report which the Regents could, in the end, deal with as they...