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...approach to world affairs, the real need is for intellectual sabotage to the point where making foreign policy is as hopeless as ending the farm surplus problem--and its solution as drastic. Until visionary, or even decent and more humane, people retake the White House and the decision-making nexus, our job is to obstruct the government in every conceivable way -- if we do, in fact, have mankind's best interests at heart, and not merely a chauvinistic longing to keep the brainless bureaucracy running at top speed. This doesn't necessarily require a positive commitment to a specific ideology...
...claim to indemnification for loss of life may be asserted if the persecutes has been deliberately or frivolously killed or driven to his death. It shall be sufficient if there is a probable causal nexus between death and persecution...
...Brussels-bound passenger at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, Ray eluded a worldwide professional manhunt fortified by a $100,000 reward for his capture. Last week, with the accused assassin immured in a maximum-security cell in Southwest London's Wandsworth prison, policemen unraveled the nexus of plastic faces, borrowed identities and bogus papers that he had woven for two months across two continents...
Poverty may breed poverty, but it has also spawned a vast, ever-growing nexus of federal programs and agencies designed to help the poor. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare alone administers nearly 100 poverty-connected programs. More than 700 local projects concerned with citizens over 65 years of age are sponsored by HEW. Thousands of others across the country provide aid and advice to the needy, the handicapped and the undereducated. To better coordinate the programs, HEW Secretary John Gardner has gathered five major welfare agencies* under one office, named the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). To Washington...
...anything wrong." At a press conference after his censure he declared that he felt compelled to run again in 1970 in order to "vindicate" his name. Meanwhile, both the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service are pursuing their own investigations of the Senator's financial nexus...