Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joined 1,100 of the area's 1,500 families in a nonprofit development corporation to guide the future of the area. In its four years' existence, the corporation has found 60 jobs for new -and old-residents in the neighborhood's salami and macaroni factories, tool company and glass factory. It has set up a summer youth program and hired students at $1 an hour to spruce up the area. The students redecorated the Hill's hydrants and trash cans in red, white and green (the colors of the Italian flag). More than...
Quiet Offices. To the degree the book is accurate, it illuminates more than any previous expose the fundamental dilemma of using covert activity as a tool in foreign policy, of a secret agency operating in an open society. How are the two to be reconciled? If the CIA is to be held accountable, are the present watchdog functions of congressional committees adequate? In a world of ever-shifting political currents that still present threats to American interests, can the nation conduct its foreign policy in a perfectly open manner without resorting to covert operations? Particularly in a dangerous world where...
Rape and Torture. Convinced that they narrowly escaped execution by leftist extremists last September, the junta leaders are determined to root out all traces of opposition. Midnight arrests still take place, and torture is, by common consent, a tool of the government's newly centralized intelligence apparatus. Its most common forms are electric shock and beatings; with women prisoners, multiple rape has been used to force confessions. "The members of this government think they are going to be murdered in their beds," explains one diplomat. "They see no reason to go easy on anyone who might have something...
...prevailing myths surrounding the national dialogue on impeachment is that when the House finally does take its vote, Congressmen will decide the issue on the basis of the legal and moral merits of the case. But impeachment never was and never can be a legal tool because congressmen are by necessity political animals. No congressman will vote for impeachment unless it is the politically expedient thing to do. And no congressman can afford to vote against impeachment if popular sentiment makes that the politically necessary thing...
...magnate's latest discovery is the Zeppelin tube, a vaguely phallic instrument that he calls the universe's greatest source of energy. Acme and his tube are destined for Chicago, a city somewhere west of Baltimore, when "the electrician" steals the tool...