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...serving as ammunition for radical journals. In hushed voices, and definitely off-the-record, top State Department officials would tell journalists the whole thing was an effort by the KBG to discredit Carter's foreign policy, put the leftiests in power in El Salvador, and spread the red tide in Latin America. Soon the explanation grew to include that the Soviets were using this report to cut off our oil lines to Mexico, After a while no Communist was exempt from involvement with the paper. Were the Cubans involved? "Yeah, yeah, that sounds good," one State Department official decided after...
...that actually delayed the album. You're supposed to think Dan put more thought into Gaucho than the albums it churned out annually. Not so. When Becker and Fagen assemble an album, it's like a political party picking a presidential candidate: the question becomes one of riding the tide. Thus, they always come up with a hit single. Instead of going disco, they fill the niche perfectly for those golden-oldies stations. This is pop music you can play for your parents...
...seemingly inexorable, escalating tide of violence was sucking other countries into the vortex. Even before the start of the leftist offensive, the Carter Administration had become alarmed by evidence that the guerrillas were obtaining large quantities of sophisticated weapons from a number of sources, including Middle Eastern and East European countries as well as nearby Cuba and Nicaragua. Nicaragua appeared to be serving as the transit point for these arms. In order to "help El Salvador interdict the supply of military equipment coming in from the outside," as U.S. Ambassador Robert White put it, Washington resumed the modest $5 million...
While the tide of battle continued to go against the guerrillas, exiled leaders of the F.M.L.N. assembled a new seven-member "diplomatic-political commission" in Mexico City. The leader of this umbrella group is Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 49, a Social Democrat who was President Duarte's running mate in the 1972 elections, as well as a member of the original junta that replaced the military in October 1979. Apparently embarrassed by the guerrillas' failure to produce a mass uprising, the commission insisted that the current offensive was not, after all, the "final" one. But what goaded the guerrillas...
Penalties also hurt the Crimson. Three of the six Colby goals were scored in power-play situations. The Harvard penalty killers just weren't able to fend off the oncoming Colby tide. "They were just intimidated," Harder said...