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...Honduras, President López, 53, has vehemently denied receiving any bribes, and hastily appointed a blue-ribbon commission headed by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, the republic's capital, to find out who did. Lopez, who overthrew a liberal government in a bloody 1963 coup led by tanks, rules by decree. But lately he has been in political trouble with his own four-man Superior Council of the Armed Forces; two weeks ago, he was abruptly replaced as head of the army by one of his strongest rivals, Colonel Juan Alberto Melgar Castro. The bribery case...
...Shadows, concentrates not on the origins of her madness but on the character of it and how that resonates among the people around her--her husbands, everybody tells her different things that they don't mean and finally they send her away. The director's snip-of-the-ribbon style, where nothing ends, begins, or needs flourishing, gives a quiet sense of real life to things, works in a vacuum land with no echoes. So along with Peter Falk's husband you almost want to shut this woman away--stop this noise now--even though the habit or the love...
Theirs were the first official admissions that there was substance to the press allegations of CIA misconduct, and they came as both Congress and President Ford's blue-ribbon commission began separate investigations of the agency. Both Colby and Schlesinger tried to play down the extent of the CIA'S domestic activities. Indeed, in a 45-page report to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Intelligence, Colby asserted that "any such missteps in CIA's history were few and far between" and never amounted to a "massive illegal domestic intelligence operation," as reported by the New York Times...
...lines from Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree: "I'm comin' home, I've done my time; now I've got to know what is and isn't mine. If you still want me, tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree...
President Ford's panel to investigate the CIA's involvement in illegal domestic spying is more "blue chip" than "blue ribbon...