Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephone lap, listening to King's private conversations. The suspect is discussing an up coming trip to San Francisco where he will lobby for civil rights and fundraise for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The G Men jump into action, and soon technical experts from the San Francisco branch are wiring King's hotel room with taps and hidden television cameras...
...figure in any such negotiations, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, has been held virtually incommunicado since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Walesa, who has reportedly been held at four locations near Warsaw, has managed to smuggle out several messages, although their authenticity cannot be confirmed. The Warsaw branch of Solidarity's underground last week published what it said was a letter that Walesa had scrawled on the back of internment papers served to him on Jan. 26. "I'll not be surprised," the message read, "if they'll start to attribute all kinds of idiocies...
...Citibank vice president in Manhattan, Michele Bertrand, 37, is in charge of 15 branch operations with a budget of $1 billion. In her office, along with the telephone and computer terminal, there is a new addition. Behind a credenza is an electric breast-milk expresser, a machine necessary for a nursing mother who spends long hours away from home...
...meantime, James D. Vorenberg '49, dean of the school, says that he is exploring ways to preserve what clinical education exists at Harvard by making arrangements with local public legal centers. Legal Services Institute the school's only practical branch will probably be eliminated as a result of reduced federal funding...
...intriguing document did not touch upon U.S. -Iran relations at all. Titled Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services, the 47-page CIA study, issued in March 1979, offered tidbits about Israeli efforts to blackmail and wiretap U.S. Government employees. For example, Shin Beth, the Israeli counterespionage branch allegedly rigged a fake abortion case against a clerk at the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem in an unsuccessful effort to recruit him, apparently in the early '50s. There are accounts of efforts to bribe Marine guards, and in 1954 a hidden microphone planted by the Israelis was discovered in the U.S. Ambassador...