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...alves spent most of his active military career as an engineer. While still in the army, he earned considerable civilian income as stockholder and manager of a construction firm. A veteran of the wars in both Mozambique and Angola, he was an early opponent of (and frequent plotter against) the Salazar and Caetano regimes. The leftist ideas he picked up in the military also made him an opponent of Spínola after that conservative general became President. When the M.F.A. decided a year ago that the revolution was not moving fast enough, radical officers readily turned...
...then there was Johnson, schooled in the tangles of Texas politics, tutored by Master Plotter Franklin Roosevelt, tempered in the Senate's school of the deal, and ultimately a man who believed that there were no accidents in politics, only conspiracies. He armored himself with intimate knowledge of those he believed conspired against him, which was almost everybody. "I don't trust anybody but Lady Bird," he once said, "and sometimes I'm not sure about...
...Headline of the week: JUDGE SWATS BUG BIG AN EXTRA 18 MONTHS -committed by the New York Daily News, on a story reporting that Watergate Plotter G. Gordon Liddy was sentenced to an additional term for refusing to answer a grand jury's questions...
Hassan had summoned newsmen to the Royal Guest Palace to reveal details of the attempted midair regicide. The King portrayed his Defense Minister, whom he had considered his most loyal supporter, as a chronic plotter of palace intrigue. Earlier, Hassan had claimed bitterly that he had protected Oufkir "beyond all reasonable bounds," and had even "endangered our relations with France" when he refused to extradite Oufkir for the Paris kidnaping and presumed murder in 1965 of Moroccan Leftist Mehdi Ben Barka...
...critics of plotting to fill two board vacancies with anti-Barr members, who would then swing a new vote to kick him out. Three weeks ago, the supporters mailed each parent a 21-page memo fingering Psychiatrist Myron Hofer, president of the P.T.A., as a chief anti-Barr plotter. Since Hofer represented the P.T.A. on the board, the memo urged parents to vote him out of office and thus oft7 the board...