Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the Spartacus Youth League, a Trotskyist organization, yesterday picketed Austin Hall at the Law School in protest of the announced speaking appearance of an FBI agent...
...cracking down on corruption, his Liberal Democrats, who have ruled Japan since 1955, could have their parliamentary majority sharply reduced in elections later this year. The depth of public feeling is indicated by a letter from a right-wing organization to Yoshio Kodama, Lockheed's secret agent in Japan. The letter demanded that Kodama atone for taking $7 million from Lockheed by "committing ritual hara-kiri...
...crop of coal if the land cannot be returned to its original use. Farmer Harold Oberlander of New England, N. Dak., had an experience that has been repeated many times elsewhere. When he came home from his 2,000 acres of wheatland one day last year, a coal-leasing agent offered him a down payment of $10,000 cash, plus royalties on the coal eventually to be mined, if he would sign on the dotted line. It could have been the easiest money Oberlander had ever seen, but he refused it. "We've got some of the best land...
...wake of a CIA-sponsored coup, has been run as a dictatorship. For the Med School to do so would mean ignoring Iran's 70,000 member secret police force, which keeps tight control on political action and education, spreading its web tight enough to include at least one agent in every university classroom. It would mean denying the 25,000 political prisoners now in Iran. It would mean justifying the use of torture...
...Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington-based group that gives legal aid to journalists involved in first amendment-related disputes. Schorr approached the committee for help in getting the Pike papers published, and through the help of the committee was put in touch with a literary agent who explored various possibilities; the committee agreed to accept as a donation any proceeds from the sale of the report...