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...firsthand knowledge of the deal: "Sure, some of it went to satisfy some worldly appetites. But a lot of it, a lot more, was disbursed in a way that guaranteed us access in some extremely sensitive and useful areas. O.K., call it buying friendship. But that's what overt aid is too, isn't it? I know what we got for that dough, and it was worth every goddam cent...
What the U.S. got, claims the intelligence source, was something above and beyond what might have been expected in return for the $1 billion plus in overt aid paid to Jordan during the past 20 years. Hussein is said to have given the U.S. valuable entree to Arab intelligence and counterintelligence circles. Jordan also remained a consistently moderate enclave in an increasingly radical Arab world. Even the White House last week accurately praised Hussein for playing "a constructive role in reducing tensions in the Middle East." If the fact that Hussein was being paid privately had become known, argues...
Although the petition marked HRBSA's first overt attack on the humor magazine, the group's board had already made two private complaints to the Lampoon. But HRBSA found that approach had little effect on the magazine, Anthony R. Chase '77, president of HRBSA, said this week...
Agression "certainly seems to be... adaptive," even though "overt aggresiveness is not a trait in all or even a majority of cultures...
...Rights Compliance Review last spring, the Task Force cited specific discrepancies between Harvard University's current employment practices and the contents of its AA plan; specific discrepancies between its AA plan and the requirements of Revised Order 4; and cases of individual employees who have been victimized by either overt racial and sexual discrimination, or by employment practices which as a result discriminatory. The report, in effect, stripped away Harvard's liberal fig-leaf...