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...memorandum to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Kennedy stressed the "training of police forces of new emerging countries to assure that they can maintain order without the necessity of firing upon civilian demonstrators who are often composed of students...
...papers were released this week from Kennedy's presidential office files which are temporarily stored in Waltham. They include a September 1963 memorandum to Kennedy from Chiang Kai-shek which details the Nationalist Chinese intention to invade the mainland and launch a counter-revolution...
With four speedy, intricate spy novels behind him, Adam (The Quiller Memorandum) Hall is a small luminary in the genre. In this latest case, Superagent Quiller applies his spectacular professional skills toward the saving of Britain's face in the Middle East. The plot is Hall's most extravagant yet; Quiller takes on two enemy spy groups, the North African desert and a tactical nuclear device. He inhales nerve gas, makes two parachute jumps, and gets pecked by vultures...
...memorandum filed with the federal district court in Maryland before the resignation, the Justice Department-some of whose officials had also been subpoenaed by Agnew's attorneys-set forth some stinging arguments against this kind of judicial interference. The department pointed out that "publicity about the criminal investigation of any newsworthy person is all too likely, and some of that publicity will almost inevitably be unfavorable." But the department argued that news stories do not necessarily prevent fair proceedings and noted that grand jurors' exposure to prejudicial publicity "has never been considered a proper ground even for dismissal...
...There are presently pending in the federal courts 37 suits involving the validity of spending controls," said Bork's memorandum to the Justices. If the high bench were to appoint a "special master" to take evidence in the cases, and were then to swiftly review the master's findings, Bork argued, the resulting precedent would save a considerable duplication of effort in lower courts...