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...however, the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency were preparing a damage assessment that concluded that information Higgins could give Hizballah was unlikely to harm U.S. security. He did not, for example, know the names of secret agents in the Middle East. No U.S. operations were changed as a result of the kidnaping. "The main danger was to Higgins," says an official familiar with the report. "It was a stupid posting...
...result, the guilty often go free. People get away with murder in about a third of the 20,000 deaths identified as homicides each year; other murders go undetected. Misinterpreted evidence can also lead to the innocent being punished. Even worse, people are sometimes jailed for crimes that never occurred. The classic example: when an alcoholic dies after a fight, the police often assume that the assault killed him, but a careful autopsy may show a lethal level of alcohol in the blood. Bungled investigations can also create lasting controversies. Mistakes in the autopsy of John F. Kennedy fueled charges...
...result of task-force recommendations, the State Department was designated as the lead agency in combating terrorism, with responsibility for coordinating other Government departments. At the CIA, a new covert counterterrorism force was set up to combine intelligence from other groups such as the National Security Agency and the armed forces. Any raid to rescue the hostages would require pinpointing where they are held, but the ability of U.S. intelligence to discover the whereabouts of the hostages is still limited. Terrorist cells are small, often based on family ties, and very hard to crack. The killing...
...with only limited success when it tried using more conventional forces to hit back at terrorists. When Jimmy Carter dispatched Marine helicopters to rescue the embassy hostages in 1980, the result was wreckage in the desert. Bombing runs over Lebanon in 1983 resulted in the capture of a naval aviator, Lieut. Robert Goodman, who was later retrieved by Jesse Jackson. Only the snatching of the Achille Lauro hijackers and perhaps the 1986 bombing of Libya could be considered effective in reducing terrorist activity...
...result of the past decade's stagnation is that many whites and blacks have given up on integration as a goal that can be achieved or that is even entirely desirable. "To the extent that white folks had a notion of integration, it meant that more and more black folks would become more like us," says white historian David Garrow, a biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. This political climate has left many black leaders disheartened. "We don't have a clue on how to proceed," says Eleanor Holmes Norton, a top civil rights official in the Carter Administration...