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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abuse found in one agency seems destined to expose related illegalities in others. After pursuing the CIA for more than nine months, Democratic Senator Frank Church's Select Committee on Intelligence Activities last week shifted to the Internal Revenue Service and its harassment of citizens for political purposes. En route, the committee took potshots at the FBI as well...
...matter, of course, is that football games against Columbia prove little more than how merciful Joe Restic is feeling on any given day. The last time the Lions from New York City walked on the Harvard Stadium turf--two years ago--they spent 60 minutes of pure misery en route to their 57-0 humiliation. Joe had probably fallen out of bed that...
...attacked the bomber on which Johnson was flying as an observer, as if the enemy pilot knew Johnson was aboard and might someday be President. In Manila in 1966, Johnson jetted secretly and dramatically to Viet Nam to stand in front of the troops assembled at Cam Ranh Bay. En route he talked about how he did not have to demonstrate his courage to anybody-but of course, that is what he did on that dubious mission...
...brush, there was a sudden volley of rifle fire. It was 9:25 a.m. At 9:40 a.m. there came a second volley and at 10, a third. Armed police shuffled up and down the dirt road, calmly puffing cigarettes. By 11, the gray vans carrying the remains appeared, en route back to the village. A black car also loomed into view; it contained the local priest who had administered last rites to one of the men. "I can't stop because I must celebrate Mass," said the priest, visibly shaken by what he had seen. "I will...
...anti-Communism ran strong among the Chinese Evangelicals scattered across Asia, and the Western missionaries who work with them. Many of them seemed to think that Communist China did not exist. Yet at the conference, called "Love China '75," some delegates talked about Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai almost as if they were their old friends. Remarked one delegate: "For the first time, Chinese Christians outside the mainland are seeing the Chinese not as 800 million blue ants but as human beings...