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When CBS duly surrendered the study last week, Westmoreland's lawyers termed the document "devastating," while CBS shrugged it off as consistent with the original Sauter memo. "They were hoping to find a smoking gun," said Sauter. "There isn't even the smell of cordite...
...being contained. When he came into office, Reagan was not very interested in arms control. Preachers, professors and pundits have forced his attention. James Watt insulted the Beach Boys and was squelched by Nancy Reagan. When it appeared the President was forgetting about those suffocating $200 billion deficits, a memo from Budgetman David Stockman was leaked pleading for action lest the red ink extend...
...Catholics abroad, but it remains a sweeping critique of U.S. nuclear-deterrence strategy at the very time when President Reagan is caught up in a tense international struggle over the issue. Moreover, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, chairman of the drafting committee, informed fellow bishops in a confidential memo two weeks ago that he discussed the contents with Pope John Paul II in February, implying general papal support, although John Paul has issued no detailed policy on nuclear arms...
Lennon successfully fought deportation proceedings that the U.S. Government brought against him on the ground of a 1968 hashish conviction in London. The files indicate FBI concern that Lennon might put together a politically embarrassing anti-Nixon demonstration in Miami. Says an FBI memo of April 21, 1972: "Subject's activities being closely followed, and any information developed indicating violation of federal laws will be immediately furnished to pertinent agencies in an effort to neutralize any disruptive activities of the subject." The bureau even stuffed into its dossier lyrics from Lennon's antiwar songs...
Lennon suspected Government surveillance, says Elliot Mintz, a long time family friend, but "I'm not sure anyone was aware of the degree." When, for example, the Lennons did not show up in Miami for the G.O.P. Convention, the FBI, according to a memo dated Sept. 28, 1972, photographed the arrest records of all 1,200 people taken into custody during the convention "to make sure John Lennon wasn't arrested." Says Wiener, "It's unbelievable. As if John Lennon could be arrested in Miami and nobody would know about...