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...Lawyers for Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's assassin, negotiated a contract with Writer Robert Kaiser. To help Kaiser cover the court proceeding, they agreed to assign him to the case as a "special investigator." This allowed him not only to interview Sirhan in his cell, but also to examine evidence before the trial and talk with court officers who were barred from discussing the case with other reporters. Given such access, Kaiser has produced a vividly detailed book-and Sirhan's 50% share of the royalties may well pay his legal costs...
Watson speculated that the dean of the Faculty may want to assign some of his duties to several different people, or even eliminate the job-as it has been eliminated or renamed several times in the past...
...Mike Mansfield's renewed call for the withdrawal of substantial numbers of the 300,000 American servicemen now in Europe, Laird pledged to maintain U.S. forces at their present level until at least mid-1971. To offset the departure of 6,000 Canadian troops, the British agreed to assign six additional combat brigades to Germany. Because NATO forces are outnumbered 2 to 1 on the crucial central front and would be quickly overrun in the event of an all-out ground attack, the NATO defense ministers also agreed to new guidelines that provide for quicker use of tactical nuclear...
...workers threw bombs at U.S. installations, battled police in clashes that left at least one dead, 40 injured and more than 400 arrested. In an attempt to prevent Sato's plane from taking off, the demonstrators converged on Tokyo from all over the country, forcing the government to assign 22,000 riot and special police to guarantee that the Premier could take off safely for his flight...
...court ordered the districts to desegregate according to the plans drawn up last summer by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The plans assign students to schools under a variety of systems, without regard to race. The court will maintain its jurisdiction over the districts, and no changes in the plans will be allowed until at least next September. Bell also encouraged school-board integration, stating that the court would be more sympathetic to changes requested by bi-racial groups than by white-controlled school boards alone...