Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessary." Ransom would permit covert actions only when U.S. security is clearly in jeopardy. William T.R. Fox, professor of international relations at Columbia University, would additionally permit them "to undo the spread of Hitler and other like governments." Dean Harvey Picker of Columbia's School of International Affairs would allow clandestine operations to prevent nuclear war. As Senator Church points out, however, the "national security considerations must be compelling" for covert action to be justified. For his part, Colby declines to say under what precise circumstances he would favor covert action...
...Cuba, Czechoslovakia and China that a special team of CIA clerks was dispatched to Chile to start indexing thousands of cards on their activities. Publicly, Henry Kissinger warned of the domino effect in Latin America. If Communism could find a secure berth in Chile, it would be encouraged to spread throughout the continent. Privately, the 40 Committee, the top-level intelligence panel headed by Kissinger, authorized $8 million to be spent to make life even tougher for Allende than he was making it for himself...
...tried desperately to whittle away the resistance of the terrorists. At one point, the talks broke down entirely when the commandos refused to communicate with government spokesmen. The Dutch reopened communications by writing a plea in huge Japanese characters on a 20-ft. roll of paper that was spread out on the street below the embassy windows. The following night, a Boeing 707 and a crew, demanded by the Red Army commandos, was readied for takeoff at nearby Schiphol Airport. Several hours later, two women were released, but the only confirmation that the other hostages were still alive came when...
Last year's highly successful 7-2 season is a case in point. The journey to Yale was an unmitigated disaster, but the bulk of the games had a little something for everybody. In five consecutive contests, the final point spread was less than seven points. By winning four of those games, Harvard earned an advance degree in last-second fireworks...
...Cambridge committee has Herculean tasks to accomplish. It has to get the support of at least half, and preferably more, of the 3000 or so University clerical workers in Cambridge, a group that is spread out among hundreds of offices and whose composition is constantly changing. Schroder estimates that a union-forming vote among the clerical workers is still two years away...