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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sent up to Fort Hood, Texas, Gessner at first refused to tell interrogators just what he had been up to in Mexico City. Finally, according to former Army Counterintelligence Agent William V. Benson Jr., he broke down after a visit to the post chaplain, gave Benson a tape-recorded confession. "I gave them all," said Gessner of his dealings with the Russians. "I knew these weapons were going to be used on little children." At one point, Benson asked Gessner about a particular weapon. "This is not important. Julius and Ethel gave it to them in 1948," said Gessner. "Julius...
Camels with the Corvina. Latin Americans may differ on politics, on soccer stars, on blondes v. brunettes. But smuggling is the great leveler and common denominator. Domestic indus tries cannot supply the varied needs of the developing countries, and protective governments aggravate the shortages by slapping prohibitive tariffs on imports. The official purpose seems noble: to help fight inflation, make domestic goods more competitive, and generally steer economies along tried and proven channels. In the Dominican Republic duties average 70% of value; in Colombia they run up to 150% on some items, while Argentina charges 200% on such treasured goods...
Central Weakness. In the opinion of many Georgians, the Journal and the Constitution are a disgrace to all red-blooded white Southerners. Roy V. Harris, a rallier of the state's racists, usually refers to the Constitution's publisher as "Rastus" Ralph McGill. While in office, Congressman Davis frequently castigated the papers from the House floor. "The mud throwing of this collection of little peewees," he said in 1961, "amounts to about as much as a flock of grassbirds*in a fence corner chattering at an eagle...
...sailed off across the starting line seven times-and seven times came home victorious. It was all just practice as far as the New York Yacht Club was concerned. The boat that will defend the 113-year-old America's Cup against Britain's Sovereign or Kurrewa V will not be picked until after the final trials off Newport in August. But in the meantime, American Eagle was doing a pretty good job of "selecting" herself. In the New York Yacht Club's annual spring regatta, she whipped both Columbia and Constellation, the other highly touted...
...cannot afford a lawyer. In many cities, the indigent can rely on a growing public-defender system or on agencies like New York City's pioneering Legal Aid Society. Yet the city, paying less than half the society's costs, puts up only $250,000 a year v. $4,400,000 for the district attorney staffs that prosecute most of the society's clients. Indigents often fare even worse elsewhere, says