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...witness who caused the biggest stir among spectators last week was Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's personal secretary. She testified that Stans left Vesco's name off one list of campaign contributors-thus raising the possibility that he might have been trying to conceal the gift. But she noted that the financier's name appeared on a second list in the impeccable company of the four Rockefeller brothers...
...Saharan Africa, brutally and unnecessarily, every day. Portugal's attempts to prevent its African colonies' gaining independence involve warfare as sustained and as all-encompassing as the war that swept Indochina. And torture of political prisoners, even U.S.-financed torture, isn't uncommon enough to cause much of a stir. It goes on more or less indiscriminately and without potent opposition (from Greece to Chile, where the followers of Guru Maharaj Ji joined the list of proscribed last week...
...story created little stir in Washington, where many of the facts are well known. Ironically, the Thieu government seemed pleased by the article, broadcasting excerpts over state radio and TV as evidence of the regime's solid U.S. backing. But Martin was splenetic and framed a 4,600-word rebuttal, which he cabled to Washington. He concluded: "Embassy believes the Shipler story and this response might well be made available to the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism as a case study of propaganda under the guise of 'investigative reporting...
...Chilean military dictatorship told Edelstam to leave Chile for "exceeding his diplomatic duties and interfering in Chile's internal affairs." Edelstam spoke in Boston as part of a nationwide effort to revive interest in Chile and to stir up opposition to the continuing military dictatorship there...
Faults and all, the book may help stir fresh interest in what is central: those crystalline obscurities, Eliot's poems...