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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiting to hear the consensus of his Cabinet as he usually does, Wilson promptly backed Healey. He won the decisive approval of the Cabinet. The only holdout was Employment Minister Michael Foot, the silver-tongued tribune of the unions. Foot was given a face-saving week to try to obtain union agreement. But the Cabinet made it clear that the proposal would be introduced in Parliament whether or not the union leaders accepted...
...commercial transaction, this may well be the atom deal of the century, as many West German businessmen boast. But it has ominous implications for international stability. Endowed with plentiful uranium and thorium deposits, Brazil could use the enrichment plant not only to obtain a concentration of radioactive isotopes sufficient to fuel a nuclear power station, but also to produce the higher concentrations required for bombs...
...series continues our Bicentennial observance, which began with our special July 4, 1776 issue. This issue has been extremely popular with schools and organizations, which are able to obtain copies at bulk rates by telephoning, toll free, 800-621-8200 (or in Illinois, 800-972-8302). The first run of 5.4 million copies was virtually sold out in three weeks, and a second printing of 800,000 has begun, making this the first edition of TIME to be reprinted since we began publication 52 years...
...occasions, agent recruits who had infiltrated dissident groups to establish cover before going abroad reported improperly on radicals' domestic activities. Such reporting, when warranted, is the legal province of the FBI. Further, the CIA used one agent to report on major domestic demonstrations in 1969, and another to obtain information about the leaders of an unnamed group in the U.S. The agency questioned still a third agent about dissidents in 1971 and passed his answers on to the FBI. Helms told the commission that he was unaware of the domestic use of agents-one of the rare instances...
...shadowy. Khashoggi is an example. Another is Frank DeFrancis, a Washington lawyer. He set up the Zurich-based Economic & Development Corp. in 1971 to promote sales of the F-5 round the world; it operated on an understanding that Northrop would ask no questions about what it does to obtain contracts. Northrop is committed to pay EDC a sum estimated as $3.1 million, representing commissions on aircraft already sold...