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When Newton emerged from prison in 1970, he found the Panthers divided into rival factions. One reason was that the FBI had begun a campaign of dirty tricks-counterfeit Panther documents, fake denunciations of various Panthers as police informants-in an effort to disrupt what the agency's Washington intelligence chief called "the most violence prone of all the extremist groups...
...striving to come up to the level of the used-car salesman. So if you have some options, who's going to go into politics?" Why, indeed, would a career woman select a field in which she is likely to have to invest a lot of money, disrupt her family and probably end up thwarted...
...early activist in the solar energy and ecology movements, Einhorn now specializes in getting hold of an unknown cause and making it popular. "When public structures become despicable, it is the duty of citizens to disrupt them," he said...
...year conflict between the faculty of the School of Public Health and its dean, Howard Hiatt, has now involved the school's Alumni Council--where threats have been made to actively disrupt any fundraising efforts on behalf of the school until the faculty and Hiatt come to "just terms...
...critical imbalances in world trade caused by Japan's insatiable urge to export and parsimonious reluctance to import. In fact, such cosmetic exercises only give the illusion that something is being done and delay the looming showdown when Japan is finally forced to realize that it cannot indefinitely disrupt the balance of trade in the world without itself suffering the consequences of the disorders that are bound to follow...