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...I.O.S. Fund of Funds, I.O.S.'s second largest mutual fund, has put $60 million of its $473 million of assets into King Resources or projects in which the company is involved. King Resources and the fund jointly own 22 million acres of Canadian Arctic oil leases; critics contend that the value of these lands was exaggerated...
...Pentagon tried to paper over that lapse, it also had to contend with stories that Laird, like Secretary of State William Rogers, had opposed the Cambodia decision. Laird denied it as vigorously as he could, and his denial was technically accurate. In fact, Laird had serious reservations about the move. Rather than disagree directly, he stressed arguments about the negative political repercussions that would follow. All along Laird has been particularly sensitive to the opposition's mood?more so, it seems, than has the President...
...permitting them to load their rifles-a procedure that is contrary to regular Army practice in civil disturbances. Once weapons are loaded, says one Pentagon officer, "you have effectively lost control of that unit. You have given them the license to fire." The Ohio Guard officers contend that loaded weapons have a deterrent value. No doubt. But no one informed the demonstrators that the troops had live ammunition. Nor were any warning shots fired. Those facts, together with the totally inadequate tactical leadership of the group that felt it was entrapped, raise serious doubts about the Guards' professionalism...
Admissible Tapes. Seale and his co-defendants reject the murder charge. Panthers claim that Rackley was a Panther in good standing, and say that his death was engineered by Sams, who they contend was working with the police. They also claim that Sams is mentally incompetent, and have succeeded in obtaining a court-ordered psychiatric examination...
...majority of the sportswriters on the CRIMSON staff feel that the athletic contests in question use up much time that can be spent working towards the stricke movement. But I contend that it is an individual's privilege to decide what his contribution, if any, should be towards that movement. The heavyweight crew will row in Harvard shirts and will make no formal protest. The light weight crew has established a number of options- strike shirts. black headbands etc. And the track team is leaving the decision entirely up to each member...