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...Director William Colby drummed his fingers on a table and fidgeted. He avoided the legal issue, but did not deny that CIA agents had frequently opened the mail of his accuser, New York's bellicose Congresswoman Bella Abzug. Nor could he if he had wanted to. Lawyer Abzug had demanded that the CIA turn over its file on her, and purged of what Colby considered sensitive items, it now lay at her elbow in a long, fat manila envelope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: Prying into Mail, Plotting Murder | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

Presiding over a House subcommittee hearing, Congresswoman Abzug drew admissions from Colby that the CIA had begun compiling a file on her 22 years ago when she represented a client before the House Un-American Activities Committee-long before her national prominence and election to Congress in 1970. What she termed the "rotten stuff' in the envelope also included copies of letters she had written to Soviet officials trying to locate heirs to an estate, a report on an anti-Viet Nam War speech she had made in New York, details of her meeting with Vietnamese Communists in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: Prying into Mail, Plotting Murder | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, will probably be in town for Commencement anyway. Henry Aaron may be swinging through, too, now that he's over in the American League. Seymour Hersh, Margaret Mead, United Mine Workers president Arnold Miller, or Reps. Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) or Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) might be more predictable, but they would certainly represent a step up from Richardson...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Choosing A Heavyweight | 3/14/1975 | See Source »

...President pleading once again for more U.S. military aid to Southeast Asia. Antiwar underground radicals igniting a bomb at the State Department, hiding another in a federal building in Oakland. Peace marchers rallying in Washington, exhorted by Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Congressman-Priest Robert Drinan, Folk Singers Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. Demonstrators occupying the Minneapolis and Washington offices of Hubert Humphrey, temporarily seizing the South Vietnamese consulate in San Francisco. Senator Strom Thurmond bellowing through a bullhorn in support of the Saigon regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Scenes from the Late '60s | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

However, Elikann said yesterday that the policy was "unwritten and unan- nounced" and had been bent for Ralph Nader and Bella Abzug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Media School at B.U. Rescinds Offer to Pay Ziegler to Speak | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

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