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...protecting the CIA-was more important than its long-held pride in open debate. He asked for an extraordinary secret session, only the second held since the middle of World War II.* "Things might be said that aren't particularly true and could be harmful," reasoned Mansfield. "Rumor and hearsay can be damaging...
Reprisal Raid. Coming in the midst of an economic recession and growing unemployment, the rumor mongering did not help Eshkol's image. Then last week he was given a chance to show that he still had muscle. For a week Arab bands operating out of Syria had been attacking Israeli border settlements, leaving behind dead and wounded. In reprisal, Eshkol sent supersonic fighters zipping eight miles into Syria near the Sea of Galilee. They destroyed earth-moving equipment used by the Arabs on a project to divert the sources of the Jordan River away from Israel. In an ensuing...
...York, "special guardians" are often named to protect the interests of "infants," meaning heirs under 21. The state's surrogate judges appoint guardians without public notice of their names or fees. One guardian recently got $15,000 for ten hours' work on a $700,000 estate. Rumor has it that New York's guardians return about 30% of their fees to party coffers, which suggests the political leverage of Manhattan's two surrogates (annual salaries: $37,000), who last year appointed 428 guardians while handling estates with a gross value of $941 million. Not surprisingly...
...Neisse frontier with Poland and renounce its claims to Heimatsrecht in the lost territories of Silesia and East Prussia. His sentiments were reinforced by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in testimony last week on Capitol Hill. In reply to a question by Bobby Kennedy, McNamara gave hopeful credence to a rumor that had originated in Berlin, to the effect that the Russians might withdraw five of their 20 divisions in return for a quid pro quo by the U.S. "Would we be willing to lessen our presence in Europe and perhaps make some changes in NATO?" asked Kennedy. Said McNamara...
Lackadaisical Management. The im mediate reason for the newest pound crisis was a rumor that the British sea men's strike was about to produce an inflationary pay increase. In addition, Britain has been hurt because other countries have lately battled inflation by boosting their interest rates, thereby drawing money out of Britain. Also hurting Britain is the U.S.'s drive to moderate its balance-of-payments defi cit. U.S. companies are repatriating their funds from abroad, including some held in Britain, and are borrowing more overseas; this year U.S. firms will in crease their borrowing in Europe...