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White House spokesmen denied that the Administration had had any such foreknowledge. There had been many rumors−with many different dates−of a possible coup, they insisted, but nothing solid had been known until La Moneda was actually stormed. In any case, the U.S. had not moved to alert Allende on the ground that to do so would have been interfering in the internal affairs of another nation. The explanation was obviously not strong enough to dispel the suspicion that the U.S. had played some part in engineering the Chilean President's overthrow...
When questioned, AID spokesmen have made no effort to deny what their budget involves, and they say that they are adhering to the letter of the Paris pact. "There is no skulduggery here," said one AID official. "If critics want to stop it," he added, "they can try to get enough support on the Hill. We are supporting the national police within the limitations of the agreement...
...foreign anti-Soviet organizations and received payment from Western journalists for passing on material critical of the U.S.S.R. The dissident movement, said Yakir and Krasin, was a foreign plot. For longtime Moscow hands, the chilling recital recalled the public confessions at the purge trials of the 1930s. Soviet spokesmen went out of their way last week, however, to insist that the conviction of Yakir and Krasin did not represent a return to Stalinism...
BUSING. Although many parents and educators still consider busing a workable approach to desegregation, a number of minority spokesmen are joining whites in opposing it. Denver superintendent Louis Kishkunas was recently greeted by rocks, bottles and screaming taunts from Chicano activists, who demanded Spanish history and language courses and Chicano teachers, rather than busing...
...revised resolution. Says he: "Reflecting on the consequences of criminal penalties to the 20-odd million young people using marijuana, I decided that we ought to concentrate on trying to stop sales and start removing penalties for possession." Seymour was joined by a host of law-and-order spokesmen, and the motion even received personal endorsement from a representative of the hard-line National District Attorneys Association. When the votes were counted, the A.B.A. was solidly behind dropping penalties for both possession of limited quantities and "casual distribution of small amounts not for profit." The lawyers' vote showed concern...