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...FRENCH HAVE a word for people with an uncanny knack for getting along: they call them debrouillards. Maria Braun, played by Hanna Schygulla and heroine of Reiner Fassbinder's latest film, The Marriage of Maria Braun, is a debrouillarde...
...contacts with the FBI in 1953 imply a much earlier and more thorough understanding of FBI operations than Kissinger claimed in his defense against Morton Halperin's charges of illegal FBI wiretapping. Kissinger supported his case by arguing that he had taken then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's word that the taps were legal...
...HENRY ALFRED KISSINGER"--as the FBI recorded his name in its memo, identifying him simply as a "teacher at Harvard University"--called the FBI, reported he had information of interest to the bureau and asked that an agent call him back. That afternoon an "SAC"--the FBI code word for Special Agent in Charge--interviewed Kissinger, who explained that he directed the International Seminar, which included persons from foreign countries who "are highly placed economically and politically in their own nation." He added that through these people he hoped "to place American policy in a favorable light in these foreign...
...REAL PROBLEM, now and possibly in the long run, is Kennedy. Labor leaders who were carping about the existing two parties only a few months ago have already started flocking to the Kennedy banner. United Auto Workers chief Doug Fraser, head of the Progressive Alliance, has put out the word his energies will now be spent touting Teddy. And there's a good chance the Citizens ambitions for 1984 will be foiled by Kennedy in the Oval Office...
Pino said yesterday the 1638 statute applies only to persons who actually intend to deny or debase the word of God. He added, "This is just a bit of Monty Python's humor...