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...Brazilian generals who toppled the elected government of liberal president Joao Goulart in 1964 were a new breed of militarists. Episodic military rule had punctuated the history of Latin American nations in the century and a half since independence, but the generals had usually withdrawn after a while and allowed at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy. But the Brazilian "gorillas" were different. They dissolved all political organizations, banned labor unions, suspended civil liberties, filled the jails, and sat back comfortably, smugly confident that skyrocketing U.S. aid and investment would foster economic development and undercut the sources of rebellion...
McGrath has, however, completely withdrawn the last two objections and hopes that the AEC will assume responsibility for looking into the other...
Five students, two of them freshmen, have withdrawn so far this year to seek institutionalization outside Stillman Infirmary. A significant number of these students had had pervious psychiatric counseling, Munter said...
...placed "two keys" to another safe that held the tapes in similar envelopes. Bennett seemed incredulous when Ben-Veniste recalled that Secret Service men had claimed that there were three keys. Asked if he could be entirely certain that all tapes returned were identical to those that had been withdrawn, Bennett replied candidly: "Nope...
...growth in a single industry. The test suit was being pushed by Richard McLaren, chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division and now a federal judge. It had the support of then Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and Solicitor General Erwin Griswold. (Attorney General John Mitchell had withdrawn from the case because his New York law firm had handled some ITT matters.) ITT, fearing an adverse Supreme Court ruling and the probable loss of its profitable Hartford Fire Insurance Corp. acquisition, was seeking at least a delay in the suit. The Government was also asking that...