Word: turmoil
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Months of extravagant, vitriolic criticism, much of it unfounded, have discredited and weakened the CIA at home and abroad. The shield that good intelligence provides for the nation's security in an age of international turmoil has been damaged. The CIA made serious mistakes in the past 28 years, some of them on presidential orders, but mistakes nonetheless. It is easy to prescribe preventive legislative or administrative remedies for these. What is urgently needed now is national reaffirmation of the value of the CIA's achievements, the number of which over the years makes its errors pale...
Gold Bug. Lisbon's foreign earnings have been badly hurt by the drastic drop in tourism. Germans, Britons and Americans who once flocked to the sandy beaches of Cascais and the Algarve have been frightened off by the political turmoil. Now falling at the rate of $100 million per month, Portugal's foreign-currency reserves will be exhausted by the end of the year. Although Lisbon could then draw upon its huge gold stocks-worth $5 billion at current market prices, making it the eighth largest hoard in the world-any significant sale of bullion would likely...
There was little doubt that the country had been in a state of turmoil and uncertainty ever since a judge in her home city of Allahabad found her guilty of campaign irregularities and deprived her of her seat in Parliament (TIME, June 23). Even before that, as Mrs. Gandhi noted in one speech last week, there had been threats to India's internal security. "Duly elected [state] governments have not been allowed to function, and in some cases force has been used to compel members to resign in order to dissolve lawfully elected assemblies," she declared. "Agitations have surcharged...
...against Diem was planned with the knowledge of Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman at the State Department, Robert S. McNamara and Roswell Gilpatric at the Defense Department and the late Edward R. Murrow at the U.S. Information Agency. The U.S. hoped Diem's overthrow would halt the domestic turmoil that had weakened South Viet Nam. But the CIA's director, John A. McCone, vigorously opposed the overthrow of Diem on the reasoning that none of the generals enlisted in the coup would be half as effective a leader as the man they wanted to bring down. After...
...that the memo be withdrawn at once. That was done, but a copy, with the objectionable terms blanked out, somehow survives, and was the object of much speculation among the Rockefeller and Senate panels. Two months after the August meeting, the Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba. In the turmoil, Harvey's executive action and the Mafia connection all disappeared into the void, never to be revived...