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...instead of heralding the first Kissinger book, the Administration defused it by announcing Landau's major disclosure four months before publication. Through his interviews Landau last years managing editor of the Crimson) found that in 1967." Kissinger acted as the American conduit for peace feelers from the North Vietnamese Two Frenchmen who visited Hanoi returned to Kissinger with the message that negotiations could begin if the bombing of North Vietnam ceased. The Harvard professor brought that offer back to Washington but President Johnson rejected it only after the bloody Tet offensive of 1965 did the United states out back...
...Yeah, that's one of the things he does. Daly acts as a conduit for information. He talks to me, talks to the Boss, writes to people, and does all the other things lobbyists do."--James P. Mooney, assistant to Cong, John Brademas (D-Ind.), (Brademas, who happened to be a member of the Conference Committee on the Higher Education bill, is a Harvard Overseer...
Bugging Funds. Officials also believe that they have traced some $100,000 that financed the purchase of electronic eavesdropping equipment and other costs of the operation to a campaign fund conduit set up by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, which was headed until earlier this month by former Attorney General John Mitchell. The money apparently was part of an undisclosed amount donated by U.S. contributors to the committee through a businessman in Mexico in order to assure anonymity. The FBI was poring over the records of the committee, suspecting that the bugging funds flowed...
Under these circumstances, many Japanese have made a hero out of a machine toolmaker named Keiji Yamasaki, who plugged with concrete a waste conduit from a paper mill to a nearby river. Yamasaki and a co-plugger now are on trial for their deed, but all the unpleasant publicity forced the offending mill to shut down permanently...
...leveling. We're going to send you to the chair." On the eighth day, she broke, crying, her body suddenly racked with sobs, sweating profusely. "And she made a good confession," Sprague says. After that, it was easy to get Huddleston to confess that he was the conduit for a payoff from union officials. Sprague is still sniffing along the trail that he is sure leads upward into the U.M.W. hierarchy...