Word: shootings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claimed to have met three men with Latin names in downtown Los Angeles two weeks ago. On May 4 he was with the three in a third-floor room of the skid row Alan Hotel, near the Los Angeles Civic Center. The three told him they intended to shoot President Carter, who was scheduled to talk to a crowd in the center on the following day, a Saturday. They asked him to help. Under the plan, Harvey was to work his way toward the front of the crowd, then fire a starter pistol. That was to create a diversion during...
...letting some dissidents leave, U.S. officials suggest, the Soviets can eliminate them as focal points for unrest. Similar reasoning may have helped persuade the Kremlin to permit freer emigration by Jews. Said Adam Ulam, a Russian expert at Harvard: "From the Soviet point of view, once you cannot shoot people on a large scale, they might as well be allowed to migrate...
...said withdrawal would be ineffective and could only offer a short-term symbolic effect. By withdrawal, the University would take the symbolism. "Wrap it up into one ball and shoot it at once," Nye added...
...says Jack Maury. "Covert operations can support but not substitute for overt policies. You are not going to change the course of history by cloak and dagger." Ray Cline feels that the CIA is "better at subtle, indirect methods. It is late in the game when you have to shoot someone to get your way. The basic function of covert action is to tell people how to run a stable political system and how to deal with threats to that stability...
Roger Twibell, sports director at WBZTV then introduced last night's guest speaker, Al McGuire. With his colorful and unorganized shoot-from-the-hip style, McGuire offered the crowd a varied but blunt lesson in day-to-day big-time athletic philosophy...