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...lawyer's advice, Helms made a personal plea to Judge Parker. During his Senate testimony, he said, "I found myself in a position of conflict. I had sworn my oath to preserve certain secrets . I didn't want to lie. I didn't want to mislead the committee. I was simply trying to find my way through a very difficult situation in which I found myself." Helms said he nonetheless agreed with the charges against him, although he understood "there is to be no jail sentence and I will be able to continue to get my pension...
Then there is Eurocommunism. With varying degrees of emphasis and sincerity, the Communist parties of Italy, France and Spain have denounced the dictatorship of the proletariat and the Soviet Union as the only true model of Marxism, and have sworn their willingness to co-exist with bourgeois freedoms in pluralistic societies. Skepticism about the depth of these commitments, which could readily be overturned by future leaders less moderate than Spain's Santiago Carrillo or Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, is warranted. Meanwhile, Moscow tries to cope with the reality of three heretical parties that, alas, simply cannot be excommunicated...
Notable exceptions are the trio of essays that conclude the book, one of which Clarke included in his sworn testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Space Science in 1975. Clarke gave full rein to his imagination in this encounter, tantalizing the committee members with the possibility of laying a cable from a satellite in geostationary orbit all the way down to the earth's surface. Payloads could then be sent up the cable by mechanical means, creating an "electric elevator to space, or a Streetcar Named Heaven." Clarke ended his formal remarks before the Congressmen with a reversal...
Frederick Forsyth With three phenomenal successes behind him, Novelist Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War) at 39 has sworn off writing. "It's a grind, a sweat," he says. A Briton, Forsyth left England in 1974 to escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London...
Implicit in Letteri's argument is the assumption that if the department spent less money on technology and systems experts, and more on beat patrolmen, there would not be a contract problem. Harvard now employs 42 patrolmen--the same as MIT--but also 27 "sworn supervisors" and even more staff personnel, none of whom belong to the union. The MIT staff is less than half that. In the union's eyes, Harvard would be better off spending its money the way MIT does--which, coincidentally, would mean a proportionately larger union payroll...