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...corporate arrogance, Northrop Co. reinstated Thomas V. Jones as chairman. Jones had been both chairman and president when Northrop paid $30 million to agents and officials abroad and made illegal political contributions in the U.S.; he resigned as chairman last year after Northrop's executive committee said he bore a heavy responsibility for those acts...
...were an accused ax murderer. Her manacled hands were chained to a heavy belt that was buckled tightly around her slim waist. But by the time she walked into the crowded courtroom, the chains had been removed and she looked harmless and vulnerable. The rather wan, unsmiling young woman bore little resemblance to the gum-chewing, self-professed revolutionary with the giddy grin of bravado who was arrested last September. Now, at long last, she took her place on the witness stand and sat demurely, just as she had been taught years ago. Her name, she told the hushed assembly...
...demonstrators bore placards denouncing the involvement of the United States and South Africa in the civil war. One such placard read: "Down With U.S. Puppets, FNLA and UNITA! Support the MPLA!," a reference to the two other factions in Angola, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...
...guard with whom James Earl Ray had his connection ... took his share off the top and mailed the rest to one of the Ray family members, in plain envelopes that bore no return address. He sent it in $100 bills, wrapped in a piece of plain paper. He sent some to Jerry. It was addressed to Box 22, Wheeling, Ill. When Jerry got the money, he would write "O.K." on a piece of paper and mail it back...
Overextended, Harvard's stimulus dulls. The people and surroundings, so interesting while you were there, somehow seem to bore...