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...Nazi Resistance in eastern France, using many aliases including the one that stuck: Abbé Pierre. Among other exploits, he carried Charles de Gaulle's ailing brother Jacques across the frontier to safety in Switzerland. Later he himself was smuggled into Algeria in a mail sack, carrying a plea for arms intended for Churchill...
...DAMNING IMPLICATIONS of this ITT-CIA conspiracy and other "dirty tricks" of the multinational have claimed some casualties in the intervening years. First came two plea-bargains, one of which featured all the niceties of a slap on the wrist. In November 1976, a former ITT public relations director for Latin America named Harold V. Hendrix pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of failing to testify fully and accurately to the Senate multinationals subcommittee during the ITT hearings. In return for dropping possible perjury charges against Hendrix, the Justice Department required Hendrix to cooperate fully with its fledgling...
Taken together, these scarcely add up to a comprehensive program, let alone a draconian one. But most could be useful first steps. Economic advisers figure they would also give Carter moral authority to make a renewed plea to labor and business for wage-price restraint...
Although CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn had originally opposed giving Braniff the Dallas-London route (he wanted it to go to Pan Am), he moved quickly to defend the Texas-based airline. In a plea to the White House. Kahn denounced Britain's action as a "fundamental and flagrant breach" of the Bermuda II pact, which governs air travel between the two countries. He urged Carter to retaliate by suspending British Caledonian's flights between London and Houston, that airline's only service...
...tank battles, which were fierce and which the Egyptians conducted very efficiently, as Israel herself admitted, I noticed that every time I destroyed a dozen tanks, more tanks were to be seen on the battlefield. The United States was taking part in the war to save Israel, following the plea sent out on the fourth...