Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also denounced the junta's suspension of civil liberties and covert press censorship. "If you compare it with the press law of Dr. Goebbel's under the Hitler regime, it is very similar," he said...
Last week the Army retreated, promising to conduct no more covert investigations of civilians without the Secretary of the Army's approval, and to recall the blacklist. It also promised to destroy information about domestic political activists stored on the Fort Holabird computer. But the Army still maintains extensive files on civilian political activists, and has no intention of ceasing its snooping altogether. With that in mind, the A.C.L.U. intends to press its court suit for a permanent injunction against all such Army surveillance activities...
Grinspoon added that "covert racism" may have played a part in anti-marijuana legislation. He explained that marijuana users in America were "predominantly non-caucasian" at the time the law was passed, and that speculations of harmful after-effects may have been linked to marijuana by way of racial prejudice...
...Thalidomide, and more recently cyclamates, didn't make the case for tough regulation of the substances moving into the public marketplace, perhaps the 2,4,5-T situation will. This one is a travesty of the highest order yet in terms of reckless, covert, conduct by officialdom and private business. Whiteside, with understatement and meticulous detail, blows a shrill whistle on governmental misfeasance, perhaps malfeasance...
...with the assassination of Martin Luther King, it was especially meaningful to have the American flag fly alongside the UN flag and the Christian flag in the funeral procession in the streets of Montgomery because the States Rights banner of the Confederacy had been the overt or covert symbol of the opposition to integration then being enforced by the Attorney General, the U.S. marshals, and the Supreme Court. But now in the kindred movement of opposition to the war, enlisting many of the same people and in any case the same kind of people who participated in the civil rights...