Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While owning up to CIA efforts to weaken Allende, Colby insists: "We didn't support the coup, we didn't stimulate it, we didn't bring it about in any way. We were quite meticulous in making sure there was no encouragement from our side." Most U.S. policymakers would have preferred that Allende be ousted in democratic fashion at the election scheduled for 1976. That kind of exit, they feel, would have decisively proved the bankruptcy of his policies...
...from testimony earlier this year by CIA Director William Colby before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence. Colby apparently admitted that the CIA, with White House approval, had funneled some $8 million into Chile between 1970 and 1973, first to keep Allende from being elected and later to weaken his government. The revelations were potentially damaging to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who chaired the so-called Forty Committee that approved the covert CIA operations, as well as to former Ambassador to Santiago Edward M. Korry and former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Charles A. Meyer...
...International Affairs. Eban has had time on his hands since he was shuffled out of the Israeli Cabinet in a governmental shake-up last May. But he will return to Israel to take his seat in the Knesset in December, with no fears that his academic interlude might weaken his appeal. "In politics," he says, "a discreet measure of literacy is no longer a fatal handicap...
Your story on the Highway Beautification Amendments is inaccurate in concluding that the House bill would weaken the law and in characterizing me as "sympathetic to the billboard lobby." I served at the request of then President Johnson as floor leader for the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 and defended the act in 1970 when it came within one vote of being terminated...
...Cambridge, Mass., about a more widespread future emissions problem: nitrogen oxides from the SST. During the 1971 debate that led to the cutting off of U.S. Government funds for the supersonic transport, environmentalists had voiced fears that nitrogen oxides in the exhaust of the 1,800-m.p.h. aircraft might weaken the ozone shield that protects the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays. The charge was serious, but was it true? The U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find out. After two years of study, M.I.T.'s experimental...