Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the flaws in the study were openly conceded by Leslie H. Gelb, chairman of the task force that managed it, in a court affidavit. He said that the people who worked on it were "uniformly bright and interested, although not always versed in the art of research. Of course, we all had our prejudices and axes to grind and these shine through clearly at times, but we tried, we think, to suppress or compensate for them. Writing history, especially where it blends into current events, is a treacherous exercise. We could not go into the minds...
...biases quite plainly. "His sympathies," he tells us, "remained with his own sex." If this avowal seems selfish, remember that the first Principle of the New York Radical Women, a liberationist group started about a year and a half ago, is similarly one-sided. They declared in their initial affidavit, "We take the woman's side in everything...
...affidavit attached to his motion, Boudin said that Time and Life had been offered copies of letters such as the two that were released, but that these magazines had decided not to print them. "It is a reasonable inference that it was a government source that offered these documents to Time and Life," Boudin stated in the affidavit...
...Central Committee during the Stalinist terror. Solzhenitsyn accorded him an interview-the first he had ever given a foreigner. On the strength of the interview, which was published in several European countries, Licko later visited London, where he boasted of his supposed intimacy with Solzhenitsyn; he also signed an affidavit saying that the author had entrusted him with a manuscript of Cancer Ward and had asked him to place it for publication in England. In addition, Licko tried to persuade Western newsmen to print an assortment of fantastic stories and patent lies that made Solzhenitsyn out to be a traitor...
Barnes's article was based on a sworn affidavit of Thomas Hetinger, a former campus security officer who left his job for "personal reasons" early this fall...