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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...
...like John Dillinger and "Pretty Boy" Floyd, but he never went after anybody with the diligence that he devoted to Martin Luther King Jr. Fragmented stories of FBI wiretaps on King have circulated for years, and last week the details of the almost paranoid pursuit were laid before the select Senate Intelligence Committee. Among its findings...
...Juan Carlos were expected to rearrange membership on the Council of the Realm. Its principal task is to propose a slate of three candidates from among whom Juan Carlos will ultimately choose his own Premier. By replacing aging and unreconstructed rightists on the council, Juan Carlos could in effect select his own candidate ahead of time. Among the leading possibilities are Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 53, a center rightist and former Minister of Tourism; and José Maria de Areilza, Count of Mortrico, 65, a monarchist and former ambassador to Washington...
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...