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...afraid that Frances Fitzgerald does not contribute to clarifying the Vietnamese situation vis-a-vis the public. Her expertise, quickly acquired from superficial trips to south Viet-Nam and French colonial writings, is apt to sow more confusion among Americans and hide the real reasons for the U.S. involvement in Viet-Nam. Truong Dinh Hung Director, Vietnam Political Freedom Committee
...such a passive role as mere information gathering; trying to influence events may at times be necessary. But it can no longer be done with the crudity and arrogance displayed in the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, or the attempt with the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. to sow economic chaos in Chile in 1970. To harness the CIA's excesses and yet utilize its immense capabilities for keeping the U.S. abreast of world developments, the Nixon Administration has ordered the greatest reorganization in the agency's 25-year history...
...secession galvanized The Crimson into action. Suddenly, all the things everyone insisted couldn't be done--the scoops, the big stories, even the six page papers--became everyday happenings. Osborne Ingram, the inveterate invoker of the Deity, became Managing Editor, and made a journalistic silk purse out of the sow's car of a green and inexperienced young staff. Meanwhile, in the Advocate building behind Claverly, the Journal people were turning out a lively, inventive, readable paper. Congratulations to the Journalists," wrote one of Ingram's untrained minions...
...predetermined time" which the Pentagon of course will not discuss, the mines will deactivate themselves automatically. Meantime, the Soviets may employ some of their surface minesweepers -they have more than 350-to try to clear the ports. If they do so, the U.S. could send in more planes and sow fresh minefields...
...turned around and embraced controls, Meany held out for a tripartite Pay Board with labor representation-and got it. Meany has not attended a board meeting since November, but he has sent his economist Nat Goldfinger, who for quite a while did all he could to block proceedings and sow dissension...