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Bozzotto claimed Powers hide behind the have the courage to say want you [the press] at the Bozzotto added...
Both the setting and the content of that remark last week advanced a tantalizing and serious game that might be called seek-and-hide. The President was addressing a luncheon of 80 former political directors of his national campaigns, and the very fact that he had called them together in Washington provided a new indication that he will seek a second term. But his wording constituted another example of his determination to hide that intention, at least in the sense of formal public announcement, until the moment of maximum political advantage-which, some of his aides have begun to hint...
...Vietnamese make little effort to hide their dislike and distrust of the Soviets. Hanoi signed its friendship treaty with Moscow in 1978 primarily because of the promised financial help. Since then the Vietnamese have been resisting Soviet attempts to gain greater influence within the country. The advisers are allowed to move freely throughout the North, but their travel in the South is severely restricted. In Saigon, for example, Soviets working out of the consulate, formerly the U.S. ambassador's residence, need special permission to travel more than seven miles beyond the city limits...
...least 43 to date, that are openly invoking the ancient right of "sanctuary" within a holy place to shelter more than 100 illegal refugees, mainly from El Salvador, who have escaped from Central America. Hundreds of other churches are giving aid to refugees and supporting the movement. To hide their identities, many of the fugitives wear masks while on public view in the churches. The United Methodist Church and United Presbyterian Church have asked their 47,000 congregations to proclaim sanctuary, and the board of directors of the American Friends Service Committee has urged Quakers to give asylum...
Taking the trans-Siberian across Stalin's Russia in 1935 was a tense and dreary experience. Thousands were dying of famine and purges and the country was wracked by economic and social chaos. Anxious to hide as much as possible from their foreign travelers. Soviet officials stopped the train at Baiku on the excuse that a log had fallen across the tracks--and held it there for 12 hours. "The result," Tuchman recalls, "was that we hit every station thereafter in the middle of the night--and didn't see anything...