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Defense Secretary James Schlesinger was asked by TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter to recount the Department of Defense's role in the decisions to ship U.S. arms to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The Defense Secretary's version of that critical week's decisive events...
...literary grandchildren of Edith Wharton's characters. Gill's narrative voice evokes the kind of man who might be found in one of his own fictional clubs or parlors-a wryly observant uncle or older brother who has moved in wide enough circles to be able to recount a homosexual killing or an old maids' tea party with equal sympathy and equanimity...
...brothers and sisters: I do not think you expect me to stand in front of you so that we may boast together about what we have realized in eleven days-the most dangerous, magnificent and glorious days in our history. The day will come when we shall recount what each of us has done and how each one bore his trust, how the heroes of this people and this nation went out in a dark period carrying the torches of light and pointing out the road between despair and hope...
Shortly after Agnew's inauguration as Governor, Green was treated to another of Agnew's recitations about the financial burdens of public office. "Green told him that his company had experienced successful growth and would probably continue to benefit from public work under the Agnew administration," recount the prosecutors. "He, therefore, offered to make periodic cash payments to Governor Agnew, who replied that he would appreciate such assistance very much." Thereafter Green visited Agnew "approximately six times a year," to hand over between $2,000 and $3,000 to Agnew and, not so incidentally, to seek state business...
Hamburg police recount the sad tale of a prostitute named Erika and a pimp named Helga. For two hard-working years, they saved money to go into business as antique dealers. Then Helga ran off with the money. Heartbroken-and furious-Erika went to the police and charged Helga with pimping, but the case was dismissed because the German penal code recognizes only men as procurers. That legal bias will be corrected some time next fall, when a new law will make pimping by either sex a criminal offense. Small comfort for Erika, however. Her once beloved Helga has already...