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...agents to probe bureau excesses, starting in New York. The inquiring agents were quickly labeled "the dirty dozen" by their colleagues. They discovered a detailed list of extraordinary activities by agents, many of which were illegal, in a safe maintained by John F. Malone, a stolid G-man nicknamed "Cement Head," who headed the New York FBI office until 1975. More than 20 agents were granted immunity in return for testimony about their superiors...
...white cement mason in a local where the majority are black (10 to 1), I can testify that Roots was a social phenomenon. Normally, at the union hall, men huddle together in small groups talking privately. Roots changed the place into an open seminar...
...appeal of his conviction for engineering the White House plumbers' break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971 after Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers. Ehrlichman, formerly Nixon's chief domestic affairs adviser, is serving time at Safford Prison, a cluster of cement-block buildings in the Arizona desert, and could be eligible for parole in April...
Crumbling Lodges. Everything from breweries to cement factories has broken down. The only coffee now available locally is imported stuff, most of it smuggled in from Kenya because the instant-coffee processing facilities in Uganda, like nearly all the factories, are closed for lack of spare parts or repair facilities for broken-down machinery...
...After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black boxes and red arrows, Murdoch provided a daily diet of rape and mayhem, tortured tots and killer bees. One classic story: "A divorced epileptic, who told police she was buried alive in a bathtub full of wet cement and later hanged upside down in the nude, left San Antonio for good this weekend. The tiny, half-blind woman, suffering from diabetes, recounted for the News a bizarre horror story filled with rape, torture and starvation...