Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paralysis was the eleventh-hour postponement of the treaty ceremony, an act that prompted a Western ambassador to ask an American in Moscow, "Just what in the world is going on in your country?" Negotiated during 93 meetings dating back to September 1974, the treaty limits the size of underground nuclear explosions. For the first time, it provides for on-site inspections in both the U.S. and U.S.S.R...
...attack after playing his customary Sunday touch-football game in Central Park; in Manhattan. Snyder became in 1954 the first art director of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, then held the same post at Scientific American from 1962 to 1970. Meanwhile, he collaborated on a popular guide to good cheap restaurants, The Underground Gourmet, and on a dining-out column for New York magazine...
...Underground (good credentials: Emile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler, Mary Lampson...
Scarcely anyone who was involved in the operations-bugging phones, breaking into houses, slipping LSD to unsuspecting bar patrons, planning assassination attempts, undermining governments-seems to have wondered whether he was doing anything wrong. The values of the men who operated in the shadowy underground world were summed up by William C. Sullivan, for ten years the head of the FBI's domestic intelligence division: "Never once did I hear anybody, including myself, raise the question: 'Is this course of action ... lawful, is it legal, is it ethical or moral?' We never gave any thought to this...
...Left would have been dramatically more successful in terms of its long-range goals had the repression been less severe. Political movements which are well organized or possess a solid social base can survive even the most severe repression--The Portuguese Communist Party, for example, survived 60 years underground. Nevertheless, the extent of overt and covert repression had a good deal to do with the precipitate collapse of the Movement; precisely how much remains to be prised out of the FBI's vaults...