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...administrative aide. If he doesn't want to a Senator never has to walk through the reception area of his office to see what's going on. He can hide out in his office, wheeling and dealing, as Senators are wont to do, coming and going with the utmost secrecy...
...clearly of the utmost importance that Afghanistan should have the right leader. The choice was between Karmal, who headed the Parcham faction in the Afghan Communist party, and [Noor Mohammed] Taraki, who headed the Khalq faction. We knew a lot about both men. In the papers we put to the Politburo, we scrupulously assessed their strengths and weaknesses. Our assessment made it clear that Taraki would be a disastrous choice. He was savage by temperament, had little feel for handling complex political issues, and would be easily influenced by his cronies, but not by us. Karmal, on the other hand...
...that have been a regular practice of the Dartmouth Review." College President David McLaughlin concurred. "Free expression is not a privilege, but a fundamental right," he said. "When freedom of expression is used relentlessly to attack the integrity of individuals or segments of the community, it tests to the utmost our commitment to this right...
...Intelligence Director Stansfield Turner, General David Jones, Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell. (Vance was on a brief and much needed vacation.) Because the militants had threatened to "destroy all the hostages immediately" if any additional moves against them should be launched, we had to plan any action with the utmost care. General Jones said that the earliest date everything could be ready was April 24. I told everyone that it was time for us to bring our hostages home; their safety and our national honor were at stake. When Vance returned, he objected to my decision to rescue the hostages...
...career of six years was over and one of 26 years began, with utmost gaudiness, at a wedding attended by 1,100 guests, 1,600 journalists and at least two pickpockets, posing as priests, clumsy enough to be arrested. Aristotle Onassis, who once mistook Grace for Gary Grant's secretary when she arrived for lunch on the shipping tycoon's yacht wearing hornrimmed spectacles, arranged for 15,000 carnations to be dumped on Rainier's yacht from a plane...