Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But the commission found no way to shield the CIA director from improper White House pressures in the future, other than to admonish both Presidents and directors to adhere strictly to the CIA charter. The exhortations struck many experts as worthless. As one Rockefeller commission staff member put it: "You...
Among the more inspired bits of rhetoric was Anthropologist Edmund Leach's charge that anti-Marketeers were misty-minded isolationists who showed "the same degree of contact with rational probability as a New Guinea cargo cult." On the other side, angry leftist Playwright John Osborne denounced the EEC as...
Humphrey Bogart (Little, Brown; $12.50) is Nathaniel Benchley's "attempt to bring life to what is rapidly becoming a legend. The literal-minded," warns the author, "will complain that the quotes in this book cannot be accurate, and this is probably true." The problem is not one of accuracy...
A professional soldier who served as a foreign policy aide to Henry Kissinger, General Alexander Haig reluctantly gave up his job as Army Vice Chief of Staff to become chief of staff of Richard Nixon's White House after H.R. Haldeman was forced to quit. In that thankless assignment...
Operation Kuwait and Eleven Bullets for Mohammed by Harry Arvay (Bantam; $1.25 each) are the noisiest and most simple-minded of all the current Kalashnikov operas. The author is an Israeli billed as a ";former undercover agent." The cover of the Kuwait book, which is about an attack on a...