Word: secret
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Jimmy Carter called a secret meeting to try to get the State Department to quiet internal dissent about foreign policy. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown worried out loud on the Hill that the U.S. had no way to counter such surrogate Soviet forces as the Cubans in Africa. Chagrin hit the State Department when Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, after his exuberant sojourn in the U.S., stopped in Tokyo on his way home and told the Japanese that America has shown indecision and "lacks direction" in handling the Iran crisis. Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger declared that...
...member Iranian secret police force SAVAK (a contraction of the Farsi words for security and information organization) has long been Iran's most hated and feared institution. With virtually unlimited powers to arrest and interrogate, SAVAK has tortured and murdered thousands of the Shah's opponents. Last week, in fulfillment of a promise made by Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, the assembly approved a bill abolishing SAVAK and establishing a new National Intelligence Center, without police powers. The No. 2 man in SAVAK agreed to an unprecedented interview with TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson at the organization...
...State Department, Johnson's charges were read with considerable interest and alarm, but her conclusions of patterns of torture and systematic abuse were rejected as unproven. Meanwhile, in a breach of diplomatic courtesy, Israel's secret service, Shin Bet, with the approval of the FBI liaison office at the American embassy, put Johnson under surveillance and tapped her telephone. Relayed to Washington were Shin Bet reports that she was intimately involved with Palestinian terrorists, both politically and personally. Following her tour in Jerusalem, she was denied tenure in the foreign service. In Washington last week, she accused...
Syracuse U. was an intellectual's academe, recalls Novelist Joyce Carol Gates ('60), but the sorority system, well, that was an intellectual's animal house. Reminiscing in the Paris Review, Alumna Gates speaks with horror of her days as a Phi Mu: "The asininity of 'secret ceremonies'; the moronic emphasis upon 'activities' totally unrelated to-in fact antithetical to-intellectual exploration." There was also "the aping of the worst American traits-boosterism, Godfearing-ism, smug ignorance, a craven worship of conformity." Grist for the Gates mill? Never. "To even care about such adolescent...
MARRIED. Susan Ford, 21, photographer and only daughter of former President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford; and Charles Frederick Vance, 37, Secret Service agent who met his bride in June 1977 while guarding her father; she for the first time, he for the second; in Palm Desert, Calif...