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Ehrlichman's lawyers are vigorously citing another case in the D.C. court of appeals. In that one, the FBI, with approval by then Attorney General John Mitchell, bugged the headquarters of the Jewish Defense League in New York City. New York Attorney Bertram Zweibon, a former J.D.L. member, and others sued Mitchell and the FBI for damages. At the time its offices were bugged, the J.D.L. was harassing Soviet diplomats in the U.S. as part of its efforts on behalf of Soviet Jews. The league lost its case at the trial when the judge agreed with the Justice Department...
Serious Reaction. "Generally, the leadership of the Jewish community has been trying to act as responsibly as it can under the circumstances," says Bertram Gold, executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee. "It has been trying not to make the Administration the enemy. On the other hand, there is an apprehensive feeling that the Administration's reassessment [of Middle East policy] is being used as a form of pressure on Israel. If 1975 turns out to be the year of intense pressure on Israel, there will be a very serious reaction among American Jews. We will go directly...
...years New York publishers argued that they could not retain antiquated methods when faster and cheaper ones were available. Just as adamantly, Bertram A. Powers, president of Big Six, refused to allow the introduction of innovations that would replace his members. Attrition agreements worked out elsewhere did not satisfy him, and he demanded protection for part-time workers. The printers' last contract expired in March 1973; Powers and the publishers haggled over a new one for 15 months...
...gesture harked back to 19th century wrecking of machines by Luddites. In the composing room of the New York Daily News one morning last week, Bertram A. Powers, president of Typographical Union No. 6, seized a thin magnesium plate and ceremoniously crumpled it. The plate was the first to bear the imprint of type set on Daily News automated equipment-photo-composing machines that translate strips of perforated tape (produced by special typewriters) into film negatives of newspaper pages. For his symbolic and melodramatic act, Powers was arrested and then quickly released on his own recognizance. The stage...
Looking back over nearly 60 years of combat in the dance world, Including her own company's civil war last year that caused the departure of Dancers Mary Hinkson and Bertram Ross, Martha paraphrased French Tragedienne Sarah Bernhardt: "I failed yesterday, even so I'll still go on today...