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...could, TIME sources found some parts of McMullen's story credible, other portions improbable. New York City police can see no reason why the I.R.A. would want to kidnap Flanagan, an unpolitical type; any ransom it might collect would hardly be worth the danger of provoking a police crackdown. David Blundy, a London Sunday Times writer who interviewed McMullen extensively before Blake did, says McMullen's accounts of two bombings in Ireland checked out in every detail, but that his stories of his U.S. adventures were a little dubious. U.S. authorities say that whatever may have been...
That seemed to be a clear call for a crackdown on the opposition, and the government took the cue. It immediately closed down 44 papers and magazines, and expelled five more Western correspondents (bringing to eleven the number deported thus far). In a particularly provocative move, it evicted a leftist Islamic group, the people's Mujahedin, from its headquarters in the former offices of the Shah's Pahlavi Foundation. Mujahedin leaders claimed Khomeini himself had assured them that they could keep their headquarters if they engaged only in normal political activity, but the authorities in Tehran...
Government research grants now total $4.5 billion a year, in the case of some universities, up to 40% of the total operating budget. The audit crackdown is likely to put a serious crimp in the already strained relationship between academia and the federal bureaucracy...
Until then, most of the committee members had been convinced that Oswald had acted alone, but they began hunting for a conspiracy. The report notes that the Mafia had good reason to hate the Kennedys because of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's crackdown on organized crime. The committee concedes that "it was unable to identify the other gunman or the nature and extent of the conspiracy." But it nonetheless concludes that it was "possible" that "an individual organized crime leader, or a small combination of leaders," had conspired to murder the President...
MIDDLE EAST Crackdown on the Palestinians Israel takes a hard line on both terrorism and dissent