Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henry Petersen, the Justice Department's liaison man with the bureau. Gray was convinced that there was no need to try to find out who had originally contributed the $89,000 that financed the bugging. This money had been given by secret donors in Texas to Robert H. Allen, president of Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp. of Houston. To hide the identity of the donors, it had then been channeled through a Gulf Resources attorney in Mexico and was finally sent to Washington. There it wound up with other cash in a safe in the office of Maurice Stans, former Secretary...
Arthur Ford died in 1971 at the age of 73. Now Allen Spraggett, the Canadian journalist who brought Pike and Ford together for the TV séance, has published his own account of the incident. In Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead (New American Library; $7.95), a biography written with William V. Rauscher, a close friend of Ford's and his literary legatee, Spraggett admits that he is a believer in Ford's psychic powers but says that Ford had the canny habit of cramming for many of his séances...
...Allen, speaking before 250 people, said the contemporary view of criminal law is openly political. He quoted one representative of the contemporary view as saying that criminal law is an expression of the interests of those who have power...
...Allen personally agreed with much of the present-day view. However, he emphasized that some police organizations in the U.S. act "in interests defined by the police themselves...
...Allen will continue his three-part Holmes Lecture Series on "The Crimes of Politics: Political Dimensions of Criminal Justice" today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Austin Hall...