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...Chain of Command...
...find it appalling that L. Patrick Gray III considers the FBI just "part of the chain of command" or that he cooperates in every way possible with the Chief Executive, who should be above suspicion. What is appalling is that our Chief Executive is not above suspicion but smack in the middle...
...While I am in sympathy with the general tone of your article, advocating impartial law enforcement and non-politicization of the FBI, I must take exception to your criticism of Gray's remarks that he was just "part of the chain of command" that leads to the White House. Surely he must be responsible to somebody. What would be the alternative? Perhaps another branch of the Government, giving us the legislative, judicial, executive and investigative...
...chairman of a twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council, Gaddafi has given his country his own special brand of nationalist revolution. He quickly ousted the Americans and British from their Libyan airbases, but he has also been consistently anti-Soviet. He expelled not only the 25,000 descendants of Italian colonialists who were still living in Libya but also threatened to ship home 21,000 Italian bodies that had been buried there over the years. He ordered that all signs and documents be written only in Arabic...
Little was left to chance. The much feared security command, KOPKAMTIB, ordered Indonesia's 125 million citizens to refrain from violence or even controversy. As a special precaution against the spreading of untoward ideas, Mission Impossible and The Untouchables were temporarily banned from the nation's air waves. Then the 920 delegates to the People's Consultative Assembly, a military-dominated body whose deliberations take the place of national elections, gathered in Jakarta's high-domed amphitheater to select Indonesia's President for the next five years...