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...Russians are also after something else. As one longtime British scientific observer in Moscow put it: "The Soviets want the West to acknowledge that they are a superpower, scientifically as well as economically and militarily, and that they might have something to offer too. It's no more devious than that...
CRIMSON-BOX JOX Bok is finally off his crutches. Fraud Farber has been getting in shape by playing a lot of golf in Angola over the summer, and Chuck "Sex-Blind" Daly will bring a lot of devious tricks from the expansion league ball clubs he played on at Hyannis Port and Hickory Hill. But you can't deny destiny Crime...
...censored text of them that was released. The sum of the testimony seemed to exonerate Abrams or any higher officers of complicity in Lavelle's misdeeds; it also illuminated the baffling technology of the war and provided a classic case study of a bureaucracy warped to serve a devious purpose. To understand Lavelle's case, it is necessary first to understand the regulations governing the air war that he inherited when he arrived in Saigon to take command of the Seventh Air Force in August of last year...
...Chairman Jean Westwood called the GAO report "the bare outlines of the largest and possibly most corrupt set of financial dealings in the history of American presidential politics." Taking the counteroffensive, Republican National Chairman Robert Dole demanded that the GAO look into the Democratic funds as well. Hinting at "devious cover-ups," Dole pointed out to the GAO what he thought to be "serious" violations on the part of McGovern's fund raisers, and promised fresh accusations this week. The GAO had already decided to investigate Democratic campaign contributions, but McGovern seemed unfazed. "We're wide open...
...stand any chance of getting the campaign focused on its real target, Richard Nixon. The worst thing about McGovern's performance was not that he was compelled to drop Eagleton, but that he at first rushed into "1,000%" support of him, only to waver toward a somewhat devious tactic of undercutting the man. In the end, McGovern proved coldly tough...