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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to do. The NSC at this moment is meeting to ratify the mining of Haiphong which is probably underway at this moment." I'd been waiting for that for two and a half years, I'd done everything I could for two and a half years to prevent it by informing the public, and had totally failed. It had neither convinced anyone nor prevented it. It was the blackest weekend of my life, the one time that I can remember feeling total, absolute despair...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: Haiphong, Kissinger, and William Colby | 11/12/1974 | See Source »

...well as the responsibility for the earlier destabilization program. And indeed Colby made very clear that day that we preferred the current regime to the past regime, and that it was in the light of that preference that they made the definite decision not to take any step to prevent the coup. I'm just putting this in the terms of what he gave--I also suspect strongly that we knew every aspect of the coup, were fully in on it, and were running it, basically. I believe Colby was an instrument, was involved in the machinery that killed...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: Haiphong, Kissinger, and William Colby | 11/12/1974 | See Source »

...would seem that the Conference, instead of being an effort to rectify structures that prevent the poor from feeding themselves, is an attempt to preserve them. These current international and derivative internal economic orders jeopardize not only the lives of millions of people around the world, but more seriously for many involved, threaten to rip the veil away from the system of development which we, but mostly the poor, have paid to support. The very real shortages of food in the world are, conspicuously enough, brought on by an interaction of supply shortages in the rich countries, elite-dominated distribution...

Author: By Nicholas Herman, | Title: Regulating the Poor and Hungry | 11/12/1974 | See Source »

...delegates attending the World Food Conference have little time to lose. With starvation threatening the planet's poorest inhabitants, nearly unparalleled acts of international cooperation are needed to prevent the Malthusian nightmare from becoming a reality. Scientific and technological means exist to feed all the hungry; but the money and the will may not. Precedents are not encouraging. This year three much ballyhooed international gatherings-the U.N. special session on raw materials, the Conference on the Law of the Seas held in Caracas and the World Population Conference in Bucharest-degenerated into forums for political posturing and adjourned without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHAT TO DO: COSTLY CHOICES | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...correct today; if they are wrong tomorrow, how shall we let it be known? And if those on the far right manage to keep us from speaking tomorrow, how shall we of the left appeal to the undecided center for our right to be heard? If we prevent Gallo from making its case heard, it is our own freedom we are killing. Joseph Low Karmel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GALLO'S RIGHT TO BE HEARD | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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