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The authorization had come to the House floor only after a highly skeptical report was made by the Foreign Affairs Committee. Why, asked the committee, should the U.S. taxpayer be required to help an anti-American, Communist-leaning country like Indonesia? The report questioned the wisdom of continuing open-handed...
Caveat to Cheaters. But what might be the effect upon today's U.S. nuclear superiority of Russian treaty cheating? McNamara argued that the U.S. could almost certainly detect any Russian nuclear tests of a size worth conducting. He conceded that the Soviets might get away with a test in...
In his announcement of the survey Sunday, Mr. Gardner said: "Certain problems that have developed in the execution of those contractual arrangements, including such things as the amount of freedom for individual research given to professors under A.I.D. contracts, the reluctance of universities to release faculty members for long-term...
First of the trio to face the five red-robed judges at Karlsruhe was stocky Hans Clemens, 61, who peered with interest at an exhibit table covered with the tools of his trade: cameras, tape recorders, microscopes, radios, films and suitcases with secret compartments. As he told it, Clemens had...
Hitchcock's dialogue is consistently well-paced (if not delivered with consistent smoothness) and often piquant with dry wit. "You have the sensitivity of an artichoke" Muscari tells his jailer soon before the execution, and then is told he has visitors. "Are they publishers?" he asks quickly, but they are...