Word: overtness
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...called for an end to American involvement in Indochina. We repeat that call today. The war has brought more death and destruction to one area of the globe since Adolf Hitler's armies devastated Europe in World War II. The United States should cease its bombing and all other overt and covert military operations in Indochina. The genocide must stop...
RETURNING ALUMNI have no doubt been impressed by the change in Radcliffe's relation to Harvard. The increased number of women students, the more overt exercise of personal freedom, and coresidential living are clear steps forward from earlier days. But hesitant steps forward are not the same as equality for women. Harvard cannot demonstrate such a commitment without admitting men and women in equal numbers...
...replace the World War II Office of Strategic Services. Officially supervised by four congressional committees, but largely autonomous and excused by a 1949 law from any accounting of the funds it gets or spends. In charge of espionage and clandestine operations abroad as well as overt intelligence-gathering activities; forbidden by law to exercise any police, subpoena or law-enforcement powers, or internal security functions in the U.S., but has occasionally interpreted these laws freely. Grown somewhat fat over the years, was ordered this year to cut its staff by 10%, but cuts are still not completed...
...merely small-group psychological, DLC members on campus do seem to be just a little "blissed out." It was evident in the wide grins they had for each other (and most everybody else) at Davis's speech. And one couldn't help but wonder if it was this overt bliss as much as Davis's abandonment of the cause, that spurred on the angry hecklers...
Martha's hysteria then was overt, but despite a certain amount of public skepticism, it turned out that her cries about official skulduggery had a solid basis in fact. The Mitchells made their peace, and John bought Martha a Fifth Avenue apartment, complete with gold bathroom fixtures, where she has kept herself busy since last fall selecting and arranging the furnishings...