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Jimmy Carter couldn't resist. A "personal and confidential" memorandum from Hamilton Jordan, dated August 4, 1974, helped finalize Carter's decision to run and captured New Hampshire's significance in, as it were, a nutshell...
...statement had its origins in a policy memorandum that Brzezinski sent Carter in February 1979, after the Shah's fall. Brzezinski proposed that the U.S. form a protective umbrella over North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. It would include signed understandings with several governments in the area?at the very least with Egypt, Jordan and Israel?and an American military shield that would stretch as far west as Morocco. If Carter is still thinking along those lines, the shield now has been extended as far east as Pakistan...
...week it suddenly loomed larger and closer than usual. The country's military leaders issued a stern warning to the politicians to get together and resolve the country's manifold crises-especially its rampant terrorism-before it is too late. The warning was contained in a special memorandum delivered on New Year's Day to President Fahri Korutürk and later broadcast. It was signed by the chief of staff, General Kenan Evren, as well as the commanders of the army, navy, air force and national gendarmerie. The memorandum demanded that the politicians "join hands...
Meanwhile, there seemed little likelihood of the political unity that the memorandum seemed to call for. The personal animosity between Demirel and the intellectual Ecevit, who have exchanged the premiership six tunes since 1974, seems to rule out a so-called grand coalition alliance between Demirel's right-of-center Justice Party and Ecevit's left-of-center Republican People's Party. Yet there was one sign of a benefit from the memorandum. As the Assembly last week began discussing tougher antiterrorism legislation, Ecevit announced that his party would support the package with only minor changes...
...internal memorandum from the Boston FBI division to Washington headquarters indicates such was not the case with Kissinger. Sigmund Diamond, a Columbia University professor found the document while researching the relationship between colleges and the FBI before and during the McCarthy era. The document states that Kissinger voluntarily provided information to the FBI, information he obtained by opening the mail of a seminar participant without his knowledge. (Technically, Kissinger could be charged with tampering with the U.S. mail, but he does not seem to be panicking about that...