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Reagan gained national attention as Governor by insisting that the University of California get tough with anti-Viet Nam War protesters. One of his first moves was to persuade the university's board of regents to fire President Clark Kerr, who had helped build what was generally regarded as the nation's best state system of public universities but had not stopped the radicals from disrupting campus life. Reagan also succeeded in imposing the university's first tuition charge ($50 a quarter) "so that those there to agitate and not study might think twice before they...
...since last December's invasion. According to reports from Eastern Europe, some Soviet soldiers wounded in Afghanistan are now being flown directly to military hospitals in East Germany -presumably because the Kremlin does not want its own people to know the number of casualties in "Moscow's Viet...
...years later, it won the right to fly charters everywhere outside North America. Its big growth, however, came in the mid-1960s, when World started to receive large military contracts to airlift personnel and supplies to Viet...
...Egil ("Bud") Krogh, deputy assistant to the President, and David Young, a former assistant to Henry Kissinger. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, was Liddy's coworker. Their priority was to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon papers, a secret study of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, to the New York Times, had enraged Nixon. In a nighttime raid, they ransacked the files of Dr. Lewis Fielding, a Los Angeles psychiatrist whom Ellsberg had consulted. But they found nothing...
...never seen onstage, he sits there, nervously smoking Pall Malls and tapping his foot, turning away one question after another. His ultimate artistic goals? "[Puff.] I try to do in the best possible way this music. That is all." What about his reputation for radical politics? During the Viet Nam War, wasn't he hissed and shouted off the stage in Milan for trying to read an anti-U.S. manifesto before playing? "I am involved in a ... personal way. [Puff.] Every man has a responsibility. [Puff, puff...