Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger originate the wiretaps or merely consent to them? In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last September and again in Salzburg last week, he stated that he had supplied names of people* with access to information that was being leaked; he insisted that he did not suggest the wiretaps. FBI memos that have been leaked imply that Kissinger in his role as Nixon's head of the National Security Council played a more active part. A 1973 FBI report on taps placed in 1969 states: "The original requests were from either Dr. Henry Kissinger or General...
...need a 'moral community of hope' to protect against both the destructive adventurism of self-obsessed quasi-revolutionaries and a successful government repression of leftist activity in a broad campaign of force or legal harassment which may one day be massed with the public's fearful consent...
...latest case, the Department of Labor accused a California Standard subsidiary, Western Operations, Inc., of discharging the 160 employees solely because of their ages during a three-year period that ended Dec. 31, 1973. Company officials contended that they had done nothing wrong but chose to sign a consent order rather than fight. Labor Secretary Peter Brennan, 56, hailed the scope of the settlement, which covers workers in eight Western states whose former jobs ranged from assistant service-station manager to executives; some earned about $40,000 a year. Individual awards to the employees will run from just under...
...Make more information available to buyers of commercial paper (short-term corporate lOUs). Goldman Sachs insists that it did nothing wrong in marketing $83 million of commercial paper for Penn Central in the six months before the bankruptcy. But it signed a consent decree under which it promised that it will investigate companies for which it sells commercial paper and tell would-be buyers what it finds...
...seeking only civil penalties-injunctions or consent decrees barring the defendants from committing the same acts again. But a federal grand jury in Philadelphia is investigating the possibility that some former Penn Central officers broke criminal laws and thus may be liable to jail sentences...