Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After dinner, the old spooks are still wondering what went wrong with the intelligence establishment. "Well," says Maryland Housewife Mary Furman, who interrogated prisoners during the war with the help of exiles from Poland and other Nazi-occupied countries, "we were civilians." She stops, hearing herself sounding holier than thou, and reflects quietly, "We never beat prisoners. Of course, the Poles were standing right there, and they were happy to oblige, and the prisoners knew it. But we never had any trouble. We never had to do anything." Bill Duff, the OSS man in Algiers, has another explanation...
Reagan still claims the loyalty of about one-third of his party in state after state. The large number of Republican candidates (nine) challenging him tends to split the anti-Reagan vote and thus strengthen the front runner. Reagan, however, carries some weighty burdens. He is 68 years old. If he wins, he will be the oldest President ever elected in U.S. history. Perhaps more important, the theatrics of American politics tends to make any three-time candidate seem shopworn...
...knows Washington well enough to change Washington," because "surely we cannot withstand still more Washington inexperience." He billed himself as the candidate "who can win in the South and in the North, on the farms and in the cities, with the whites and with the black Americans, with the old and the young." He talked tough about the Soviets. Approval of SALT, he declared, would "guarantee to the Soviet Union the margin for error that used to be ours." He said the nation must have a President who will "face up to the realities of a Soviet foreign policy that...
After the shootings, it is alleged, Chung was called into the dining room. Kim proposed that they rush to another KCIA office in Namsan, on the edge of Seoul's old city, and immediately take steps to seize all radio and television stations. But at the sight of the President's body, Chung became upset. Instead, he persuaded Kim to go to the defense ministry, while Chief of Staff Kim Kae Won rushed Park to a nearby hospital. When the alleged assassin and the general arrived at Chung's office shortly after 8 p.m., Defense Minister...
...life is enough to make an editor's head throb. Little matter that he and his wife Joan have lived apart, at her behest, for two years. Every rumored dalliance poses a journalistic dilemma: Are a candidate's personal peccadilloes legitimate issues in a presidential campaign? The old rule - such indiscretions are off-limits as long as they do not interfere with official performance - has been breaking down in the wake of Watergate, Wayne Hays and Wilbur Mills. A new standard may evolve as the presidential campaign unfolds. Says Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship: "We haven...