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...Neither Woodward nor the networks nor Congressional investigators refer to the role played by millions of dissident activists, from the beginning of the Vietnam war protests through the 1970s and into the present era...

...Against the backdrop of the city's soft air, waterfront real estate, wealthy tourists, drug traffic, and political intrigue, she sketches a web of disturbing interconnections over the years involving former CIA operatives, politicians, and businessmen...

...He covered the Mexican Revolution and the struggle of Nic-araguans led by Augusto Sandino against the U.S...

...blacks and whites and Haitians than on the results of U.S...

...The unwritten story of the Casey years at the CIA is not the history of various secret operations and wars that he directed, which Woodward describes, but the record of his determination to defy the cowardly majority...

...Or was there some truly wild scheme to institutionalize world anticommunism into one great international counterrevolutionary apparatus...

...It was an isolated incident, and yet...

...24.95...

...There is a compact new atlas in vivid color...

...For nearly twenty years, the original, unabridged Random House dictionary has been the final arbiter on spelling and usage for the editorial staff of The Progressive...

...A zealot assigned to covert action for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War Saul Landau is a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C...

...Why...

...Their difficulty also stemmed from the refusal of the widows and other survivors to cooperate with the prosecution...

...In this volatile atmosphere, "one man's loose cannon is another's freedom fighter...

...Here she looks back at her youthful perceptions of the natural world and her family and friends...

...In his tenure at the CIA, the media exposed the agency's role in mining Nicaraguan harbors, its advocacy of assassination in manuals published for the contras, and Casey's collaboration with North in planting disinformation about Libya...

...That is what we learned growing up in Pittsburgh, growing up in the United States*" She realized she was privileged because of her family background and affluence...

...Veil is a spy story, one of many that the Cold War has produced...

...II, he wanted to keep fighting but had to settle for Cold War against the Soviets instead of hot...

...But there is a missing link in the story of North and his escapades, of Casey and his covert shenanigans, of the dogged investigative reporter and the "system" working as epitomized by Congress...

...He was a member of the old boys' covert action clan, a true believer in the anti-communism of the Eastern Republican elite, a shady business tycoon who even as CIA director refused to put his stocks into a blind trust...

...But a decade later, when the chill of Cold War settled in, Beals's career went into decline...

...Woodward reveals that Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, Editor Benjamin Bradlee, and legal counsel Edward Bennett Williams made decisions about what information to publish and what to hold back...

...328 pp...

...Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America...

...Bob Woodward had a chance to find out what was going on...

...Naturalist Annie Dillard grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s...

...He stared and finally nodded yes...

...238 pp...

...What did these men hope to win...

...Beals's colorful career is described thoroughly, if not very vividly, in this thoughtful biography...

...He brought to his work the insights he acquired from the prairie populism of his native Kansas...

...rather, an additional mystery is posed: Why did Casey reveal secrets to a famous investigative reporter...

...This new edition is a cornucopia of information, conveniently accessible...

...In later chapters she is more self-conscious in looking back at herself in her teens...

...Britton notes, "That The Progressive, with its small readership, was the only periodical to accept his articles on a regular basis offered additional evidence that Beals's style of slashing, controversial reportage was expendable in the oppressive climate of the late 1940s and early 1950s...

...She is at her best in recalling her early years of glorious summers with her grandparents at their summer home on Lake Erie, her delight in drawing and reading, her first discoveries of rocks and insects...

...Casey was frustrated by limits imposed on the CIA by the lack of domestic consensus for violent overseas adventures...

...It carried out policies it deemed necessary to realize its "higher cause," in the words of Fawn Hall, North's secretary...

...Bob Woodward, half of the struggling young investigative reporting team that broke the Watergate scandal, reemerges in Veil as a member of the establishment...

...2,478 pp...

...In the 1920s, when the nations we now call the Third World were all but ignored in the U.S...

...Charged by the U.S...

...This junta organized its own foreign policy and defense apparatus...

...foreign policy: the absence of consensus...

...But the public clock is still not entirely wound by the exigencies of the media...

...Did they want to reverse the "losses" of territory to the communists...

...One cannot find in Veil an explanation, a judgment, even an indication of how the author felt about the sly clandestine operator...

...Had Casey lived, he would have faced Congressional inquiries and, perhaps, indictment, trial, and a prison sentence...

...Carleton Beals was a pioneer in American journalism...

...Troublesome questions remain: What were the goals of the gang that had amassed a navy, air force, armies, and a treasury...

...Today's Cuban community is one of increasing affluence and influence...

...A chilling story, compellingly told...

...Justice Department with conspiracy under the civil-rights laws, they were acquitted on all counts...

...The prosecutors' difficulty, in simple terms, arose from the fact that the dead people were members of the Communist Workers Party and too many of those involved—from law-enforcement officials to jurors—apparently believed that it is not really a crime to kill a communist...

...inevitable...

...The book is full of surprises as she keeps changing, and along the way the reader learns quite a lot about Pittsburgh's social history...

...His book, "The Dangerous Doctrine: National Security and U.S...

...policies in Central America and the Caribbean...

...17.95...

...Army push eastward after the German surrender in 1945, continued to stymie the "real men...

...The Cuban exile community makes up 56 per cent of Miami's population and 43 per cent of Dade County's...

...Elizabeth Wheaton has been trying to make sense of this tragedy since 1981, when she began investigating it for the Institute for Southern Studies...

...No conspiracy, she thinks: "The confrontation was preventable, and yet...

...You can find definitions of formerly nonexistent words such as "hype," computer-software lingo, and Wall Street terminology...

...17.95...

...Charged by the state with first-degree murder and felony riot, the killers were acquitted on all counts...

...Is the emergence of this military junta in the bicentennial year of the constitution a clear danger signal for the future of the Republic...

...During his years as a private business speculator, Casey came close to being caught for dirty practices on a number of occasions...

...Casey showed his contempt for Congress by lying to its members...

...255 pp...

...Casey was a founding father of the modern national-security state...

...frustrated extremists will often turn to violence...

...A Populist Abroad CARLETON BEALS: A Radical Journalist in Latin America by John A. Britton University of New Mexico Press...

...Without that consensus, Congress is reluctant to approve overseas adventures, and even the national-security bureaucrats cower at the thought of illegitimacy...

...Woodward's descriptions tell us that Casey was a badly dressed man with thin wispy white hair and flapping jowls—a mumbler...

...309 pp...

...Throughout the national-security bureaucracy, there are those who officially or unofficially provide Woodward and other reporters with documents and information...

...Cornucopia THE RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Random House...

...T believed.'" But in what...

...CIA Director William Casey was Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North's spiritual guru...

...Controversy will always breed extremists...

...Veil, then, is not only about the secret wars of the CIA but also about the agency's relationship to the major news media...

...In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the intelligence apparatus was staffed by Ivy League adventurers and ideologues who saw their mission as helping the United States exercise control over as much of the world as possible...

...As Casey lay semicomatose in his heavily guarded hospital deathbed, Woodward managed to slip in and ask the old man whether he knew about the diversion to the contras of profits from the sale of weapons to Iran: "His head jerked up hard...

...Why should he invite Bob Woodward to listen to CIA secrets...

...79.95...

...the CWP maintained from Day One that the attack was part of a conspiracy by city police and Federal agents to wipe out the party's leadership...

...In a 1946 article from Chile for The Progressive, Beals referred to the "pap and piffle" of the U.S...

...These establishment newspapers also serve as weathervanes of elite opinion, indicators of how far the agency can bend or break the law with its covert actions...

...And then, in October 1986, a plane carrying arms to the contras was shot down and Eugene Hasenfus was captured by the Sandinistas...

...Casey himself invited Woodward to accompany him on his private plane to hear revelations of the CIA's direct military involvement in Nicaragua, its intervention in Italian politics to thwart a possible communist electoral victory, its bribing of Moslem leaders, and its creation of death squads and assassination teams...

...By the 1930s, Beals was widely known as a perceptive, if contentious, journalist...

...BOOKS BRIEFLY Growing Up in Pittsburgh AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD by Annie Dillard Harper & Row...

...She believes that the policies of the last six Administrations reflect a dismal record of deceit...

...Historically, The Post has served as a place where official leaks have appeared— if they did not hit The New York Times first...

...As a teenager her heroes were Huck Finn, Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe, and Jack Kerouac...

...Now, in a second edition just published, 50,000 new words have been added...

...President John F. Kennedy is still the "second most hated man" among the Cubans...

...The Third of November CODENAME GREENKIL: The 1979 Greensboro Killings by Elizabeth Wheaton University of Georgia Press...

...Beals's parents, says biographer John A. Britton, were "determined leftists...

...His close friend at the CIA was a younger version of himself, the volatile operations director of the contra war, Duane (Dewey) Claridge...

...But the members did not address the issue of how multiple layers of government, each with accountability processes and monitoring procedures, failed to track the doings of North's and Casey's military forces, much less the comings and goings of money into their Swiss bank accounts...

...He habitually violated the law...

...But we learn little about Casey's motives from Veil...

...The damned liberals and pinkos, the same ones who had stopped the visionaries of the far Right from continuing the U.S...

...She finds missed signals, noncommunication, and a legacy of racism that allowed police to take less than seriously their mission to safeguard the black neighborhood in which the demonstration was held...

...Marine Corps...

...press, he went to Latin America to write about the social, political, and economic exploitation of peoples living under the thumb of the North American colossus...

...24.95...

...The North-Casey junta was conceived to deal with that primary fact of life in U.S...

...Woodward's Veil is the authorized account of that attempt...

...Hard work bore fruit," she writes...

...She admits, "I had small experience of the evil hopelessness, pain, starvation, and terror that the world spread about...

...He thought that capitalism, like the CIA, survived by resorting to the ultimate bending if not downright evasion of the law...

...Writer Joan Didion focuses less on the interaction of Cubans with U.S...

...A flood of revelations followed, and Congress decided to offer televised day-by-day coverage of its investigative hearings...

...He met with Casey on many occasions...

...This was Bill Casey's challenge: to prove that he and his coterie of warriors, old and young, could still win for America in the international arena, despite the lack of public support...

...I asked...

...A reader could conceive that in the duplicitous world that was Casey's reality, the CIA director wanted to bring the informal establishment of the United States into the decision-making process he had devised...

...Foreign Policy, " will be published early next year by West view Press...

...I had barely seen people's malice and greed...

...part of the fabric of American society...

...Little Havana MIAMI by Joan Didion Simon and Schuster...

...In other words, by first telling Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, Casey was compromising the newspaper...

...They killed five people, maimed several others, and they did get away with it...

...What caused the eruption of this secret government within our Government...

...He no longer must meet Deep Throat in an unlit garage...

...They decided on the definition of "national security"—a definition that still has not been made public...

...How could such an enterprise operate for years without exposure...

...The consensus that the original Cold Warriors achieved in the late 1940s and 1950s to initiate the national-security state has been broken decisively...

...A laconic, elliptical, and haunting book...

...The American public suffered from a reaction syndrome after every war, including World War II and the Korean war...

...Eight years after the fact, it remains astonishing that a group of American Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen thought they could get away with an armed assault on anti-Klan demonstrators in the middle of Greensboro, North Carolina, in broad daylight, with television cameras rolling...