Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school. Even after passing the bar, he offered so little promise that for a year no law firm would hire him. After an undistinguished career, he became a federal judge because of his capacities as a political fund raiser. Such are hardly the credentials for stature. But when the nation faced its gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War, he provided a fresh instance of the American dictum: In times of extremity, men grow into their roles...
Sirica's unorthodox background probably helped him deal with the nation's unprecedented crisis. The son of a luckless Italian immigrant, he confesses that he sometimes lived beyond the law. Hired as a mechanic's helper in Washington, D.C., the pudgy 14-year-old discovered a way to make his job easier. Instead of completely cleaning out grease caps on the automobiles of 1918, he merely scraped off the top layer of old grease and applied a little new. Irate owners complained that their cars still squeaked. Before he could be fired, Sirica quit...
...seriously disabled the CIA at a time when its services are needed more urgently than ever. To guide its foreign policy, to help its friends and restrain its foes, the U.S. must have adequate intelligence from those areas of the world where information is suppressed, confused or conflicting. The nation cannot afford to be caught off guard by sudden hostilities in the festering arc of crisis or in the vast arenas of Asia where Communist giants collide. With weapons technology advancing more rapidly than ever, the U.S. must keep abreast of the latest Soviet developments, since an undetected Russian breakthrough...
...Circle, seven miles from CIA headquarters, a group is in business to publish the names of CIA agents abroad. Under the present espionage law, somebody who divulges secrets can be convicted only if it is proved that he acted with "intent" to injure his country or aid a foreign nation-almost an impossibility to establish in a court of law unless he is caught dealing with a foreign agent. No other democratic country is so lax about its intelligence: the U.S. can surely make it tougher for those, including the KGB, who want to compromise national security...
...rest of the country on the matter of reviving the CIA's capability. "The public mood is very supportive," says a top CIA official. "The question is how to mobilize that support." In the world as it is and not as it is sometimes fondly imagined, a major nation cannot function without a strong intelligence agency, and that is what is conspicuously missing in contemporary America. With the balance of power no longer as securely in America's favor as it once was, there may be little time left to get back into the intelligence business...