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For two years, the House Assassinations Committee has been poring over all the evidence on the shooting of President John F. Kennedy, trying to disprove once and for all the various conspiracy theories. Until now its conclusion was the same one that the Warren Commission had reached 14 years ago...
The new information came from Mark Weiss of Queens College in New York City and his associate, Ernest Aschkenasy. Both are highly regarded experts. They helped find the erasure marks in the 18½-minute gap on one of Richard Nixon's White House tapes. Using a computer to...
For years, conspiracy theorists have claimed that a second gunman was located on the knoll. Their view was supported by some witnesses who said they saw a puff of smoke rise from that site during the shooting. In addition, a photograph made at the time showed a policeman running toward...
Antinuke forces thought such celebrating was premature. Physicist Henry Kendall of the Union of Concerned Scientists called the test meaningless because the LOFT reactor has less than 2% of the output of a typical atomic plant. Said his colleague Robert Pollard: "It's like using a kite to prove a...
DEREGULATION. Government regulation of specific industries and the spread of costly safety, antipollution and other rules that all industries must obey became widely recognized this year as a powerful inflationary force. In 1978 the Civil Aeronautics Board successfully freed air fares. The Interstate Commerce Commission now proposes to make entry...