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...Daniel Ellsberg '52 told an audience of about 350 people last night at Cambridge High and Latin School to protest nuclear proliferation and the role of the United States in the nuclear arms race. Ellsberg spoke as part of a teach-in sponsored by Mobilization for Survival, a recently formed anti-nuclear group...
...Mobilization for Survival will sponsor a "teach-in" this weekend at the Cambridge High and Latin School. Daniel Ellsberg and others will speak in the school auditorium on Friday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon, workshops will be held on nuclear power; military spending vs. jobs, unmet human needs, campus organizing, nuclear weapons and transnational corporations, and nuclear technology from a feminist perspective...
...exists, for example, that John F. Kennedy ever personally ordered political assassinations abroad, as the show has it. The miniseries has the Washington Post discovering malfeasance long before the Watergate breakin; it did not. The video version of the burglary by White House plumbers of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist becomes a break-in at a St. Louis courthouse; instead of psychiatric records, the squad is after police records. The fictional Lyndon Johnson orders the CIA to carry out an illegal hunt for any Nixonian dirty laundry before the 1968 elections. So far as is known, Johnson...
...people by their Government, most notably under Johnson. Ironically, much of the deception that Lasky deplores was detailed in the Pentagon papers; yet Lasky considers publication of the documents such a serious breach of security that, in his view, Nixon had every right to unleash his plumbers against Daniel Ellsberg. Typically, Lasky dwells at length on the well-publicized assassination attempts against Castro while Kennedy was President, but he notes only in a phrase that the CIA's deal with two Mafia figures to rub out Castro was struck under Dwight Eisenhower...
From 1970 to 1973, agents of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division (since abolished) convened an estimated 100 grand juries in 80 cities in pursuit of assorted radicals, including associates of Daniel Ellsberg, Phillip Berrigan and Abbie Hoffman. Actual convictions were rare-but jail terms for contempt of the grand jury (refusal to answer questions) were not. Complaints about federal grand jury abuse have not been confined to the left, however. Last week General Motors Corp. Attorney George Moscarino accused IRS agents of abusing the system by summoning GM employees before a Detroit grand jury on what...