Word: points
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often in diplomatic history, the current crisis had an almost innocuous beginning. In mid-August, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded (from yet undisclosed evidence) that Soviet combat forces, as distinct from advisers, were in Cuba. At that point, the matter might have been quietly clarified and even settled by Moscow and Washington with some adroit negotiating. But the Administration lost control of the issue when it conveyed the intelligence findings to Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an Idaho Democrat who faces a tough re-election fight next year. Church went public with the matter...
...emergency" and "panicked" coded references to Kennedy's failure to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne from his submerged car in July 1969 as well as his failure to seek help? Many reporters thought so. But Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell indignantly denied the connection. Quite correctly, Powell pointed out that Kennedy had raised the leadership issue, suggesting, in effect, that the nation is seeking a stronger person in the White House. Added Powell: "How can you ask an incumbent President who has faced every tough, thankless issue and has a commendable record-not perfect, but pretty damn good-to give...
...served for a short time as a consultant to President Kennedy, he asked me to brief the crusty West German Chancellor Adenauer on the military ideas of the young Administration. Adenauer had his doubts about the strategic doctrines that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was developing. At one point he interrupted me in the full flight of my oratory to ask how I knew what I was presenting was true. I had been briefed by a general, I responded. Had the general worn a uniform? the Chancellor wanted to know. When I allowed that I did not remember, he suggested...
Enclosed with the photo was a scathing, ten-point "interrogation" about his alleged wheeling and dealing, apparently handwritten by Sindona under duress. The questions demand detailed information from Guzzi about illegal deals that Sindona reportedly conducted through his banks on behalf of some of Italy's leading politicians and businessmen, and the Vatican to boot. Guzzi is instructed in the note to be ready-if he is telephoned by one of the captors-to reply to all of the questions within ten minutes...
...home in Oakland Hills early one evening, Mrs. Halvonik found that a burglar had stolen $1,450 worth of television and video-tape equipment. She called the cops. The Oakland P.D., in the person of Patrolman Monte Beers, responded in short order. While checking out the perpetrator's point of entry, Officer Beers later reported, he spotted some long-leafed plants growing in redwood boxes on the balcony in the rear of the house. They were not zinnias. To Officer Beers' trained eye they looked like Cannabis saliva, a.k.a. marijuana...