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...what he could to assuage Moynihan and keep him on the job. Similarly, a few days earlier, the President had had to mollify Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had privately complained that the Administration was not giving him full backing in his confrontation with the House Select Committee on Intelligence...
After six months, 11,000 pages of testimony and more than 100 witnesses, the select Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of CIA plots to assassinate foreign leaders last week yielded a report that eerily replicated the shadowy world of its subject matter. Words like "ambiguity," "deniability" and "euphemism" flicker over the record. Yes, said the committee, "the United States was implicated in several assassination plots." No, the U.S. never carried out an execution of a foreign leader...
Students in Mather House voted last week by a narrow margin to select an 11-member panel of Mather students that is empowered to nominate students for the CRR. The Mather panel will meet sometime after Thanksgiving vacation, William H. Hammet '77, a member of the panel, said Monday...
...listeners. But his goal was always Hollywood. In 1937, while accompanying the Chicago Cubs to spring training in California, he wangled a screen test at Warner Bros, and landed a $200-a-week contract. His good looks and fine physique also led University of Southern California art students to select him as a "20th Century Adonis," and he posed for the school's sculpture class...
Baldeschwieler said yesterday that initially the governors will formulate admissions policy and select faculty for the university...