Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seberg had angered the FBI'S autocratic director, J. Edgar Hoover, by helping raise money for the Black Panthers. According to documents that had been obtained three years ago by Seberg's lawyers and were released publicly last week by the FBI, an unnamed agent in Los Angeles proposed to Hoover that the actress, who was several months pregnant, be discredited with a rumor that her baby's father was a Black Panther leader. Said the agent in a memo, which was dated April 27,1970: "The possible publication of Seberg's plight could cause...
...unexplained reasons, the Los Angeles agent did not wait that long. On May 19, 1970, Los Angeles Times Columnist Joyce Haber reported that an unnamed international movie star who supported the "black revolution" was "expecting." She added: "Papa's said to be a rather prominent Black Panther." Other details in Haber's column made it clear that she was referring to Seberg, who had moved to Paris in 1958 and become a star in French New Wave films such as Breathless after her amateurish performance in Saint Joan made her name a synonym for miscasting...
Carson says that he does not. Basing his case on a California law barring certain personal contracts from being extended beyond seven years, he claims that he has in fact been a free agent since last April-seven years from the signing of his 1972 pact. NBC asserts that there have been three separate agreements since then, the last of which not only gave Carson more money but reduced the hours he has to spend as host of the Tonight show...
Some of the gold goes to the bank's own account, but most is for its clients. The Dresdner is rumored to be active as an agent for Middle Eastern investors, though much of the demand is from West German money managers. Schreiber advises them to keep one-quarter to one-third of their investments in gold...
...near blacks can avoid busing, since they are needed to desegregate nearby schools. Busing also helped block the predicted pattern of swift racial turnover once a few blacks had moved into a neighborhood, since the plan guarantees that no school will become all black. Says a local real estate agent: "When busing was new, people were afraid of something they just didn't know. But I think desegregation is an accepted fact...