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Whether or not assassination attempts against Castro were authorized by the Kennedys is still unclear. But they did send word to the CIA, at least, that he must be knocked out of power by any means the agency could devise. Two obvious possibilities: fomenting political upheaval or plotting an assassination. Similarly, the State Department and possibly the FBI and the Pentagon were told that ways should be found to get rid of Castro. The CIA did work with two U.S. Mafia leaders, Sam Giancana and John Roselli, in unsuccessful attempts to kill the Cuban leader...
...absolutely no provision for undergraduate input. Certain undergraduate aspects of the Institute were once considered an integral part of the Institute. Why are they now non-existent? Student input was at one time considered vital to the Institute. Why does President Bok now consider its value to be "unclear"? These are the questions that are at the base of the conflict and which need to be publicly discussed. Douglas M. Schmidt Rob Gips for the Cabinet of Phillips Brooks House Association
Awakening as usual at 5:30 a.m., President Ford was told the sketchy details of the seizure in his early morning briefing. The U.S. had no information on why the ship had been seized; indeed, that remained unclear throughout the week. Some officials speculated that, flushed with their conquest of the country, the Cambodian Communists were simply kicking sand in American faces. Others suggested that the Cambodians were reinforcing their claim to the Wai Islands, where geologists believe oil may lie under the sea bottom. Still other U.S. officials feared that the Cambodians had taken the ship in order...
Nevertheless, it is unclear how long he will remain here. He is taking a sabbatical next year to teach at Vancouver, and sometime after that, he says he may return to Canada, which he still considers home. "I feel badly about not having done anything for my own country," he says. "I have no plans now, but it is true that the Canadian government paid for some of my training here in the early 1960s. There are obligations...
...seat edge over the opposition Christian Democratic Union. The same day, in elections in the Saarland, where Christian Democrats have ruled since 1947, the voters turned the C.D.U.'s 27-to-23 majority into a 25-to-25 deadlock. At week's end it was still unclear which party would be able to form a state government, but as a result of the election, the Christian Democratic majority of one in Bonn's Bundesrat will probably be wiped...