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Balkanization, Trong said, tries to disrupt the unity of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by aggravating border disputes and infiltrating those countries with Thai agents...
False Credentials. A Hoover memo of October 1968, titled "The Disruption of the New Left," urged that the FBI send anonymous letters to parents, informing them when their youngsters were arrested in antiwar demonstrations. At the 1964 Democratic Convention, the FBI got false press credentials through NBC and inserted agents, working as reporters, within left-wing and civil rights groups. Sometimes the FBI tried to disrupt the marriages of dissidents by sending anonymous letters to a husband or wife. Said one letter to the husband of a white woman active in the black movement: "Look man I guess your...
After meeting with Beame, two labor leaders threatened a general strike, which would shut down most public services, paralyze transportation, further diminish investors' confidence and seriously disrupt the city's economy. Said local Teamster President Barry Feinstein: "We have given our blood. The unions are bleeding to death...
Norway's policy has been to tap its oil wealth slowly, so as not to bring in gushers of money all at once and disrupt the economy. Unlike Britain, though, Norway has firmly made up its mind as to what role the government should play. Through Statoil, the state oil company, Norway controls most of its oil industry. It buys up to 75% interests in production ventures; Statoil and Mobil along with other oil companies are partners in Statfjord, Norway's biggest oilfield yet (3 billion bbl. in reserves). Headed by Arve Johnsen, a 41-year-old economist...
...school strike when the teachers' contract expires on Sept. 22. The situation in Boston is further complicated by the fact that Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity, who ordered the busing, is determined to keep the schools open. He might intervene if he thought a teachers' strike would disrupt his highly organized desegregation program...