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South Africans were stunned by the sudden bloodshed. Students picketed Western Deep's offices in downtown Johannesburg with signs saying LOW WAGES CAUSE REVOLUTION and SAP [South African Police] is TRIGGER HAPPY. The English-language press called for an inquiry, and the Natal Mercury cautioned that South Africans should take the incident as a warning about the increasing tensions and frustrations generated by the years of apartheid. South Africa's implacable Prime Minister, John Vorster, seemed to take a different view; he praised the police for acting with "considerable restraint." Meanwhile, as the Africans mourned their dead, Western...
Neither will go away. As for the economy, Nixon noted: "It's very easy to turn the crank so tight that you have a hard landing" - meaning that a wild, groping effort to stamp out inflation at any cost could easily trigger a recession...
...Stanford's plan is the cellulose in wastepaper and grass clippings. Although cellulose is indigestible for man, it is the basic diet of microorganisms that can trigger a natural sequence of soil enrichment. Stanford proposes to plow cellulose-containing material in garbage into the desert soil. Next, he would fertilize it with "sludge," a purified end product of sewage treatment that looks like gruel, smells like tar and is loaded with nutrients. Using a little sewage water for irrigation, Stanford says, will then turn the desert into a vast garden. His theory makes eminent sense to scientists...
...Trigger. That may not satisfy the angry legislators. Schlesinger insisted that the CIA had no knowledge that the White House spooks were planning a domestic burglary, and that the agency had belatedly moved to cut off aid to them once the nature of their activities became clearer. But this unquestioned acquiescence to a White House phone call by the CIA seemed shocking. It was also a flagrant abuse of the agency by presidential aides. It raised - but left un answered - the vexing question of just what other secret activities the CIA has conducted within...
...South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. Hunt said that this study was supervised by Charles Colson, then special counsel to Nixon. Hunt claimed that he showed Colson some cables that could conceivably have been interpreted as implied orders from the Kennedy Administration to "pull the trigger against Diem's head." According to Hunt, Colson declared: "Well, this isn't good enough. Do you think that you could improve on them?" Hunt said he would need technical help to fabricate something more conclusive, but Colson replied: "This is too hot. See what...