Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SATURDAY. Begin wants to go to Washington to hear Leonard Bernstein conduct the Israel Philharmonic. Carter doesn't want him to go. Begin jocularly tells Brzezinski that Camp David is a "deluxe concentration camp." He recalls he has a friend who tunneled out of a British prison camp after six tries. Says he: "If we don't finish soon, I'll call my friend. He'll start working immediately...
...justifiably proud. Wearing a sweater and slacks, he sat in the aisle talking to reporters for more than an hour. But as the plane flew eastward into the night the mood began to fade. And by the time the Vance mission ended some six days, three countries and 14,000 miles later, it was obvious that despite Camp David's great accomplishments, some major questions remained unanswered. What kind of peace was possible? Would the moderate Arabs eventually accept the summit proposals? How much trouble could radical Arabs cause...
...suggest that Financier Robert Lee Vesco had masterminded a well-funded campaign to buy influence from some of the President's advisers. Vesco's purpose: to get them to call off the Justice Department's attempt to extradite him from Costa Rica, where he had lived in exile for six years to escape prosecution for fraud. But as more details emerged last week, one critical thing was missing: any evidence that the President or his aides had done anything for Vesco or even listened to his proposals...
...Bartlett and Businessmen Jerry Dorminey and R. L. Herring. Dorminey and Herring are now awaiting trial in Georgia on charges of fraudulently obtaining $277,000 in loans. At a farmhouse in the mountains, Vesco outlined a preposterous plan. If the Carter Administration would promise him leniency, he would order six Latin American countries under his "control" to support the Panama Canal treaty. Back in the U.S., Bartlett and his law partner, Harry Wingate, conveyed the offer to Secretary of State-designate Cyrus Vance, who rejected...
...Six years later, in his first book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Agee blew the covers of several hundred agents. As a result of this publicity, the agency had to reshuffle its intelligence operations in Latin America. Then in December 1975, when CIA Station Chief Richard Welch was assassinated in Athens, the agency blamed his death on Counterspy, a magazine that Agee edited. It had named Welch as a CIA official, though the Athens News had printed his address...