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...entrepreneurs, for they had taken several telephoto shots from a Navy helicopter while one of the boys in the airplane shoved the bales out of the side. One detail of the importers' operation, you see, involved a telephone call to a hotel in a famous south Florida resort on the same day the president of the United States was scheduled to visit. The codeword for the payload was "corpse," and so an alert operator smelled a plot with a higher and more violent purpose and had the call traced. By the time the smugglers' plane...
...bizarre-but basically true -tale raised a host of disturbing questions. Why did the military have to resort to spying to get information that it claimed was essential to maintain the nation's defenses? Was the Pentagon prying into matters that were none of its business? Were some leaders of the armed forces contemplating a coup? As it turned out, the story of the Pentagon v. the White House was not quite Seven Days in May but several deeply disquieting days in January (when the story first surfaced). It was something less than apocalyptic, but troubling nonetheless...
...memo states that because of the People's Republic's split with the Soviets as well as internal dissention resulting from the Cultural Revolution, "the time has come for us to resort to such tactics as would entail the minimum sacrifices, take the least time and insure the greatest effect...
This cutback in teachers would be acceptable only if it were definitely a last resort. And this could only be ascertained if the University did as graduate students have been asking for several years now, and opened up its books to public scrutiny. The university has recently found money for such necessities as flower boxes for the Yard, the refurbishment of Robinson Hall and seemingly innumerable glasses of sherry for seemingly innumerable gatherings. Harvard's earmaking of funds for special purposes, not a real shortage, is apparently the problem...
...Resolved the long debate on gasoline rationing by a straightforward decision: try to avoid it, but get ready anyway. Simon, a free-marketeer who views rationing as a last resort, says that he will not be able to tell before mid-February whether it can be avoided, but he has drafted a detailed and imaginative plan that could be put into effect as early as March...