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...disagreement raised a question of which man is telling the truth. So, too, did a Nixon reply to inquiries from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which had asked him about the CIA's role in trying to keep Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile in 1970-and in ousting Allende three years after he won office. Kissinger had told the committee in a secret session last August that in 1970 "President Nixon was encouraging a more direct role for the CIA in actually organizing such a coup" to topple Allende. But Nixon claimed in his testimony...
Last fall, after hearing Vice President Nelson Rockefeller discuss the subject with concern, Senator Barry Goldwater told newsmen that Soviet agents had infiltrated the offices of seven Senators. In the ensuing furor, 52 Congressmen endorsed a letter asking Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, to look into the charges. Church, in turn, asked the FBI to investigate...
...country as Military Governor. Giving no hint as to his source of support, Ahdab called on President Suleiman Franjieh and Premier Rashid Karami to resign within 24 hours, "for the sake of national unity." Ahdab insisted that he had "no desire to rule" and called upon Parliament to select a new President within seven days...
Those officials with the top ratings work the top games and, in the process accumulate the fattest bankrolls. The 500 to 600 CBOA officials fall into four salary categories, in which they are cast by their respective ratings. Excluding expenses, a college may select a referee who commands anywhere from $40-$80 per game...
Mansfield is proudest of his support for the 18-year-old's right to vote, his initiation of the Senate Watergate Committee and his role in the formation of a select committee to investigate the Central Intelligence Agency. But he will be best remembered for the loose-reined openness he brought to the conduct of Senate business, and for his early, unrelenting opposition to the Viet...