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...four Ford children joined their parents for the holiday. On Christmas Eve, the family went to Vail's Inter-Faith Chapel. Though front-row seats had been reserved for the Fords in the crowded sanctuary, they discreetly declined to disrupt anyone by walking down front. Someone gave Mrs. Ford a rear seat, but the President and Michael, 24, Jack, 22, Steve, 18, and Susan, 17, insisted on standing through the service in the rear of the chapel with others...
...Latin America is mainly free from the guerrilla activity that plagued many of its nations for 15 years. Only in Argentina is it expected that terrorists might effectively disrupt the government in 1975. No end is in sight for the wave of kidnapings and killings by feuding rightists and leftists that have taken more than one life each day since President Juan Peron died last July...
Furthermore, inflation makes it harder for U.S. business to compete with foreign business, and inflation creates uncertainties and instabilities which disrupt the economy...
...didn't go out and try to hit them that much," said captain Randy Roth. "We tried to disrupt their passing game by getting to the man with the puck as soon as possible. I think we really tired them...
...Robert Kennedy in 1961 to John Mitchell in 1969 knew about COINTELPRO. In response, Nicholas Katzenbach, who held the office in 1965, said that he had never heard the term COINTELPRO. While he knew of some legal bureau activities involving the Klan, said Katzenbach, he was unaware of any disruptive campaign against groups such as CORE or the S.C.L.C. Ramsey Clark, Lyndon Johnson's last Attorney General, flatly declared: "I had no knowledge of any efforts by the FBI to disrupt the activities of people in the U.S. Such an endeavor is unlawful and unthinkable...