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...five agreed that the situation is at the same time both stagnant and volatile. "The politics of that country constitute a powder keg," says Fox. He adds that it is a no win situation because the Blacks will stop at nothing less than "one man, one vote," and the whites will never grant that to them. The junior who asked not to be identified explains that although there exists a certain level of trust between the two groups because of the high proportion of white families that employ Blacks as domestic servants, trust disintegrates with the realization that not only...
...Mart is based in the rolling Ozark hill country of Bentonville, Ark. (pop. 8,756). The sleepy mountain town was heretofore known chiefly as the birthplace of Louise McPhetridge Thaden, winner in 1929 of the first cross-country Powder Puff Air Derby for women aviators. Now it is famous as the home of Walton, an individualist who flies his own Piper Aztec, hunts quail, and is worth $500 million to $700 million...
...dirty tricks that shocked the American public. From 1960 to 1965, according to the Church report, the CIA concocted at least eight plots, none ever carried out, to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro, as well as a bizarre scheme to dust the dictator's shoes with a powder designed to make his beard fall out. The agency was also implicated in the assassination of Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961 and a failed attempt on the life of Premier Patrice Lumumba of the Congo. The pro-Soviet Lumumba was killed in 1961, a year after...
...fresh guidelines for the Powder River Basin auction, the committee report said, experts in the regional office of Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) in Casper, Wyo., spent 4,000 man-hours trying to determine the fair market "value" for each tract. But, feeling that the figures were not reliable, department officials in Washington rejected them. Barely one month before the sale, Interior came up with its own "entry level" bids, some of which were as much as half the MMS recommendation. The new prices, said an MMS official who worked on the original set of figures, "were...
...Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle, polemics flared. Iklé began by noting amicably that French and Italian participation in the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon was a gratifying example of a nascent if limited new role for NATO. But in Central America, which Iklé considered the other powder keg in the world, the European allies had not only failed to support U.S. policy but at times actively undermined it. When Iklé said that the problem was a lack of understanding about the importance of the area, Healey snapped, "We think it is very important and believe...