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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS. For 20 years, the Justice Department improperly allowed the CIA the sole authority to decide whether to prosecute federal criminal charges involving CIA employees and agents. Never confirmed in writing, the agreement apparently was made orally in 1954 by then Deputy Attorney General William Rogers, who later served as Eisenhower's Attorney General and Nixon's Secretary of State, and then CIA Director Allen Dulles. Top agency officials had argued that the arrangement was necessary to eliminate any danger of public disclosure of CIA operations and procedures. So secret was the deal that according to Justice...
...instead the 14,600-ton guided missile cruiser Little Rock, flagship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The Little Rock was trimmed with flags, including the Stars and Stripes, which flapped visibly in the hot summer wind. Two Soviet admirals among the guests in the flotilla-Moscow's sole representation at the ceremonies-glowered and gloomed...
Steiner says he doubts the merger issue will come up next year, but the implementation of the Strauch Report could be a step in the direction of merger. When it loses sole control over its admissions office, the function of Radcliffe for undergraduates will be almost purely a spiritual...
Nomad Independence. Spain's sole remaining colony, the Spanish Sahara, has also been an increasing source of trouble for the regime. During the past five years, Madrid has invested $400 million in developing the colony's rich phosphate deposits. Now Spain is planning to abandon the whole area. The reason: threats by neighboring Arab states to liberate all or part of the sparsely populated (60,000 nomads), mineral-rich region. Pressure on Madrid intensified last month when ten Spanish soldiers based in the Sahara disappeared. Their fate remains unknown. It has also been reported that Moroccan troops fired...
...statement released by James Q. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, the senior members of the department were said to have taken note of "various allegations" that Kearns "was not the sole author of the manuscript" by an apparent reference to editorial assistance Kearns received from Michael Rothschild, a fiction writer, for about...