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...Inspector, Ambassador Robert McClintock, was accidentally misfiled under the name of another Charles W. Thomas, then Consul General in Antwerp. The report was eventually logged into its proper place, two days after Thomas had been turned down by the promotion board. The board deemed it too much bother to reopen the case...
...January 1969 the Federal Communications Commission (PCC) denied WHDH's application to renew its license, awarding it to BBI instead. WHDH appealed the ruling, but it was upheld by the courts. On August 20, however, the FCC requested the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reopen the entire case, in view of the various federal civil suits against David and a ruling is still pending on this request...
...with Germany as a continuous thread running through postwar Soviet foreign policy. In March, 1947, Molotov suggested a reunified Germany, but the plan was overlooked by the U.S. The 1948 Berlin blockade was not a grasp for a city of 2 million people. Ulam suggests, but an attempt to reopen the question of a united Germany. The Rapacki Plan, which Russia forwarded and America rejected in 1957, proposed a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe. And according to Ulam's novel interpretation of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Russians sought not a redress of the balance of power...
...like stockpiling gasoline around an open fire. Sadat has pronounced 1971 the "year of decision" in the conflict with Israel, and officials in Jerusalem are all but daring him to try something. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers is pressing his effort for an interim agreement that would reopen the Suez Canal and lead toward broader peace talks. While the Suez negotiations have got nowhere, both Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban have told Rogers, during meetings at his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, that their governments want the talks to continue...
...cavalier views of civil liberties have combined with recent decisions by the federal judiciary to turn the grand jury system into a powerful political weapon in the government's battle with the American left. Ever since early 1969--when Attorney General Mitchell used an Illinois grand jury to reopen an investigation of the Chicago "conspiracy", a case which Mitchell's predecessor had judged to be empty and invalid--similar juries across the country, in St. Louis, Seattle, Tucson and, most recently, in Harrisburg, have conducted sweeping investigations into the activities of radical groups and produced the now-familiar "conspiracy" indictments...