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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least $1,000 per man each month and were, he said, delivered in cash by Mrs. E. Howard Hunt, wife of one of the arrested men. Hunt, a former White House consultant, later pleaded guilty to burglary and wiretapping. His wife was killed in a Chicago airplane crash on Dec. 8; she was carrying $10,000 in cash at the time. McCord also contended that the payoff money was coming from the Nixon reelection committee...
...DEC. 28, 1968. Israelis retaliate for a terrorist attack on an El Al plane in Athens by bombing and strafing Beirut airport; 13 planes are destroyed...
Flag. By late 1971 the organization had solidified enough to stage its own psychological warfare. On Dec. 7 they staged a church service in the "Hanoi Hilton." Their North Vietnamese captors called it "the riot." On that day the Fourth Combined P.O.W. Wing ordered a mass prayer service in defiance of camp regulations prohibiting meetings of more than 20 men. Ordered to stop, they prayed even louder. When the wing leaders were taken outside the cell block, those inside broke into The Star-Spangled Banner...
During the postwar years LIFE grossed more advertising dollars annually than any other magazine. Yet high production costs always kept its profit margin narrow. In the end, rising costs left no profits at all. After sustaining $30 million in losses in three years, LIFE ceased publication on Dec...
...trouble. In addition, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a federal court to appoint a receiver to take over all of the cathedral's assets. According to SEC lawyers, the church has spent $7.3 million more than it has taken in over the 18 months ending Dec. 31, and currently has $4.2 million more in liabilities than assets...