Word: overtness
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...event, when the time came, Kennedy approved the proposed invasion. According to Schlesinger, the President strictly stipulated that "the plans be drawn on the basis of no U.S. military intervention." Sorensen recalls that stipulation with slight but highly significant differences. Kennedy, he said, insisted that there be no "direct, overt" participation of "American armed forces in Cuba...
...Overt was the key word. Sorensen says that what Kennedy wanted-and was misled into thinking he would get -was a "quiet, even though large-scale, infiltration of 1,400 Cuban exiles back into their homeland"; an air strike or so would have been the "only really noisy enterprise...
...Washington is doing a lot of guessing. Among those being talked about: Richard Helms, 52, the CIA's deputy director for plans, the man responsible for the agency's cloak-and-daggerish activities; Ray Cline, 47, deputy director for intelligence, in charge of the CIA's overt intelligence operations such as analyzing foreign news and quizzing returning overseas travelers; Navy Secretary Paul Nitze; Lieut. General Joseph Carroll, director of the Defense Department's intelligence agency; Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy, brother of Presidential Aide McGeorge Bundy; and General Maxwell Taylor, the U.S. Ambassador to South...
Regal Candor. Fortunately for Hassan, neither of the nation's two major leftist opposition groups has yet taken overt advantage of the riots. The Union Marocaine du Travail, Morocco's socialist, urban-intellectual labor union, staged an 18-hour sympathy strike for the rioters. But discipline was poor-largely because the U.M.T. did not know what the riots were all about. And the Union Nationale des Forces Populaires, which holds nearly a fifth of the seats in the National Assembly, was equally befuddled. Had the two combined forces, Hassan might have been in real trouble...
With that saving gesture to party unity, the rest of the malcontents fell into line. Both Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier and Bavarian Ally Franz Josef Strauss avoided overt criticism of Erhard's aloof Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder, whom they detest. Schroder acknowledged their forbearance with the acid observation that "after all, we are a party that must take extra care of its china...