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...THEN AGAIN, perhaps not. For Pynchon is fondest, above all, of ambiguity. And just as more and more evidence grows to confirm the conspiracy theory, so too grows the likelihood that it is all just a paranoid's hallucination...
...terrorists' demands cut against the grain of President Nixon's no-dealing-with-terrorists policy, enunciated in 1971 in connection with the kidnaping of four U.S. airmen by leftist terrorists in Turkey. To Mexican authorities, the release of 30 imprisoned terrorists to Cuba meant, in all likelihood, that the revolutionaries would soon be back in action in the country...
...prominent adviser to the Administration expressed a frequent line of speculation. "I can imagine an Oval Office conversation like this between Nixon and his aides: 'Don't worry, boss. We have ways of finding out what those s.o.b.s are doing' -and Nixon letting it pass." The likelihood that the President promptly learned of White House involvement once the Nixon committee had been linked with the arrested wiretappers -but failed to admit it-is far greater...
There will be a fourth boat in the race, University of Rhode Island, but short of divine intervention, there is likelihood that the Rhode Island squad not will be close enough to the finish even to see who wins, let alone to influence the outcome...
...combination, the IRRC and the internal process represented by the ACSR and the Corporation subcommittee have increased the likelihood that Harvard's proxies will be voted on the basis of merit and not on blind prejudices. Regardless of how the Corporation votes this week on IBM, Continental Oil and Mobil -- and there is more room for disagreement with the ACSR this time -- the precedents set this Spring reflect a thoughtfulness previously missing in proxy policy...