Word: consent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he notes that the year the CIA started its massive MK-ULTRA program to develop mind-control techniques--1953--was the same year the U.S. signed the Nuremberg Code, prohibiting experimentation on humans unless the subjects are fully aware of the nature of the experiment and freely give consent. Through the MK-ULTRA program the CIA spent more than $25 million to sponsor research often carried out on unwitting subjects...
...year ago an intelligence review uncovered what one investigator called "one of the worst leaks in State Department history." Acting with Jimmy Carter's consent, Attorney General Griffin Bell ordered a tap to be placed on the phone of Truong, expatriate son of a South Vietnamese "peace candidate" who ran unsuccessfully in 1967. The FBI quickly traced one of Truong's contacts to the U.S.I.A. The suspect turned out to be Humphrey, a middle-ranking official who had served three years in Viet Nam and was desperately trying to extricate his Vietnamese mistress and her children from Saigon...
...grew up in the warm comfort of her family's spacious red brick colonial home in Forest Hills, Queens, a horseshoe's toss from both Aqueduct and Belmont. She was educated by nuns, at her Catholic mother's request and with her Jewish father's consent, and sent off to Virginia's very white-glove Marymount College. She inherited her father's fierce passion for horses, even spending college weekends trackside at Laurel, Bowie or Pimlico while classmates went off to football games. Hirsch did his best to insulate his daughter from the touts...
...preparation named Acne-Statin a "real help" in keeping their skins clear. The FTC has filed a complaint against the manufacturer, Karr Preventative Medical Products, Inc., of Beverly Hills, contending that the product does not really keep skin free of blemishes. Last week it got Boone to sign a consent order in which he promised not only to stop appearing in the ads but to pay about 2.5% of any money that the FTC or the courts might eventually order Karr to refund to consumers. Boone said through a lawyer that his daughters actually did use Acne-Statin, and that...
...Congress acts with the independence many have urged on it, we blame him for not controlling or manipulating it well enough. The President is not only criticized for advancing this or that program, he is also criticized for not being able to engineer consent...