Word: breach
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...statement, issued by U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, reflected his deep concern-and considerable embarrassment-over a serious breach in the FBI's security measures. On the night of March 8, a group calling itself the Citizen's Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into the bureau's unguarded two-man office in Media, Pa., and stole at least 800 secret documents. Copies of 16 of these documents, which deal primarily with the bureau's surveillance of radical black and student groups, were forwarded to places where the thieves thought they would do the most good...
...Tonight a minority prevented speech from being heard," the statement added. "We urge all those who cherish this University to join in condemning this deliberate breach of our most basic freedom...
...regards the proliferation of domestic intelligence activities as a serious threat to individual civil rights. It should be added, though, that the House and Senate are often less than candid about their own operations. The requirement that politicians report their campaign spending, for example, is honored more in the breach than the observance, since only a tiny fraction of funds actually spent in campaigns is noted for the public record. According to law, Senators are required to release public reports only on fees received for speeches, articles and television appearances. But detailed information on their business interests and outside income...
Given these facts, the public is invited to reinterpret two statements appearing in the CRIMSON's article of November 23. First, that "spokesmen" from Yale complained to the CRIMSON about arrangements for their women which they had suggested to us seems singularly ironic to me. I find it a breach of etiquette that the dissatisfaction within the Yale group concerning these arrangements was voiced neither to me nor to my management in the weeks preceding the concert. Second, the most inflammatory quotation appearing in your article, our manager's statement: "We would rather sing alone than sing with the Radcliffe...
...presented the ad hoc committee a statement of University policy on the issue and informed the group that we had yet another "proper channel" to go through-the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. The Administration negotiators had obviously made up their minds before even hearing our case. No breach of trust could be more insulting to a group seeking an effective alternative to confrontation politics...