Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Operation Saint Nicholas has recruited veteran Santas to train officers in the niceties of the role, including patience with children, the proper shades of blush and, of course, the art of padding. So, with all those undercover Santas around, Fort Myers residents had better remember to be good, for goodness' sake...
...line of death -- had given climactic form to the image of the bad machine, a Moloch bent on destruction and alienation, that had haunted the imagination of artists and writers through the 19th century. No one was going to see the machine as an unqualified good. But America's role in that distant war had been small, its trauma of human loss slight. With industry booming, Americans found it not just easy but almost obligatory to believe in machine- created Utopias. Their country, wrote the photographer Paul Strand in 1922, was the "supreme altar of the new God," a trinity...
...TIME Assistant Managing Editor Henry . Muller and Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. Under the ground rules, he refused to discuss sources or methods of covert operations. Repeatedly disclaiming CIA involvement or even knowledge about much of what went on, he defended what he insists was the agency's narrow role in helping the National Security Council...
...think I am. I'm telling you what the agency did and what its role was. And there was distance between...
...think we've done a great job, I really do. On the Iranian thing we have done what we were supposed to do. We have done it well, and we've accounted for everything. The CIA role was to provide support to an activity under the direction of the NSC. All the activities were entirely properly conducted and fully authorized. We received $12 million to pay for the Defense Department weapons shipped to Iran. It has been meticulously accounted for. We facilitated the movement of these weapons in three separate flights, and none of the $12 million reaching...