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...preface to the 524-page book, "Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security," Safran acknowledges research support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rand Corporation but makes no mention of the CIA grant...
When testimony in the case began in Natal province on Oct. 21, the prosecution's star witness turned out to be Isaak de Vries, a political scientist at Rand Afrikaans University, who spent weeks describing the U.D.F.'s violent aims and A.N.C. connections. Under withering cross- examination, however, he admitted that his knowledge of both organizations was limited to a reading of their literature and other research materials. Finally, two weeks ago, De Vries was forced to admit that his previous testimony had contained "fundamental mistakes...
Crisp seems to espound sincerely his philosophy of self-absorption, but with a sardonic humor that would make both Ayn Rand and W.C. Fields proud. It's simultaneously a deadly serious manifesto for happiness whose key points are hilariously funny. It's no wonder that Crisp has developed such a following. He does tell egos what they want to hear...
...looking elsewhere for targets. In the case of the Achille Lauro, for example, it appears that the hijackers chose the cruise liner because the usual avenues of access to Israel--by land and air--have been blocked by Israeli security measures. There is also what Brian Jenkins, a Rand Corp. terrorist expert, describes as a kind of novelty factor. Says Jenkins: "If you want to stay in the headlines and exercise coercive power over governments, you have to do novel things...
...ballistic-missile throw weight, while the U.S. has a mere 2 million kilograms. The Soviet proposal offered last week would reduce the Kremlin's throw weight to no more than 3 million kilograms, according to an analysis for TIME by Ted Warner, an arms-control expert at the Rand Corp...