Word: nathanity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, allegations have surfaced that the CIA had a hand in Whitlam's fall. In an article entitled "Dateline Australia: America's Foreign Watergate?" published this week in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy, University of Delaware Political Scientist James A. Nathan retraces those accusations and other charges of U.S. interference in Australian affairs. Given the fact that Whitlam's policies were straining the traditionally warm relationship between the U.S. and Australia, it is not unimaginable that the U.S. might have wanted Whitlam ousted, and that the CIA might have played...
...Nathan's premise is that "a plausible case is being developed that CIA officials may have also done in Australia what they managed to achieve in Iran, Guatemala and Chile: destroy an elected government." Nathan recounts the rise of Whitlam, from his 1972 victory to the distrust that quickly developed between Washington and Canberra. Whitlam gave the U.S. State Department good reason to be nervous: his government recognized North Viet Nam and North Korea, removed a ban on the sale of strategic materials to the Soviet Union, and sent its Deputy Prime Minister on a tour of North Viet...
...intelligence officials, according to Nathan, were concerned about the future of the half a dozen U.S. electronic monitoring faculties in Australia that maintained watch over the Soviet Union, and especially its missile testing. The most important of these installations, by far, is at Pine Gap, a desolate sprawling base in central Australia, twelve miles from fabled Alice Springs, that employs some 250 Americans. The supersecret station helps pinpoint potential Soviet military targets and collects information from U.S. spy satellites orbiting overhead...
...situation where there is no choice," says Nathan Goodman, assistant professor of Computer Science, of AM 110, "Introduction to Systems Programming." Goodman adds, "It's much superior to use grad students over undergrads, but we simply need to use them...
Pates was charged with capital murder, which carries the death sentence. He was being held without bond and watched around the clock at the Gulfport, Miss., jail. Said Biloxi Policeman Nathan LeBlanc, who dragged at least 14 prisoners from the lethal fumes: "You arrest somebody and put him in jail. You expect him to be all right the next day. Then something like this happens. It makes you feel...