Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Morley, a former high-level official in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who directed the FBI's alleged mail-opening and wire-tapping campaign against the Weather Underground terrorist organization in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bell has frequently second-guessed his department's decision last April to indict John J. Kearney, a Morley underling who headed the FBI office in New York that allegedly carried out the illegal operations against the Weathermen. The Kearney indictment provoked an outcry from within the FBI as agents took to the streets of Manhattan to protest the unprecedented action...
...chief's job became vacant April 1 when David L. Gorski, the former chief, resigned after a series of confrontations with the Harvard Police Association...
...These sums, he pointed out, were nowhere near the $450,000 in overdrafts that some newspapers had attributed to him. That figure was the highest total of overdrafts listed by the Comptroller of the Currency for nine relatives between September 1974 and April 1975. Lance claimed he had always had enough money on deposit in other accounts at the Calhoun bank to cover the overdrafts in his personal checking account...
...Mafia's current version of Murder, Inc. is a squad of professional hit men armed with silencer-equipped, .22-cal. automatic pistols. Although they have accounted for at least 20 Mob executions over the past two years, mystified lawmen knew them only as the ".22-cal. hitters" (TIME, April 18). But now the FBI believes it has a big break in the case -and indeed one of the killers. Last week federal prosecutors in Los Angeles were preparing indictments against an underworld moneylender named Joseph Ullo, charging him with two of the .22-cal. slayings...
...five months from April to August, the basic money supply (cash plus checking accounts) has grown at an annual rate of as little as .7%, but twice it has topped 18%. Despite the stop-go gyrations, the monthly rate has averaged almost 10%. For a while the rise seemed to be moderating in August, but in the last week of that month the money stock ballooned by $3 billion, jolting many analysts. Then in the week ending Sept. 7, money supply took a header, dropping by a dizzying $800 million...