Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grew up in an America filled with hate and war and drugs and Watergate and CIA-FBI "investigations" and Rich ard Nixon free and James Hoffa free and Helter Skelter and Attica and riots and murder and rape and kidnaping . . . and I asked, "Dear God, what has happened to my country?" Last night I read the article on torture, and I thought, "Thank God I am an American...
Such asphalt visionaries may be better off restricting their rural fantasies to improved air quality. Good ol' country living now suffers from that big-city disease known as a rising crime rate, according to the FBI'S annual Uniform Crime Reports released last week. In rural areas, serious crime-murder, rape, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, larceny and theft-was up 8% in 1975. That increase was a percentage point higher than the crime rise in large cities (pop. over 250,000). Things were even worse in the suburbs, which racked up a 10% increase over 1974. There...
...Accprding to the FBI, bombings of commercial buildings peaked at 485 incidents in 1975 and totaled "only" 173 in the first half of 1976. "Federal hostage cases," generally meaning kidnapings. bomb scares, and extortion attempts against businessmen or members of their families, reached about 40 in 1974, fell to about 16 last year and totaled only six in the first five months...
...keeping more than his share of the Las Vegas boodle. Following another theory, some Senators who had once laughed at his jokes during his sessions on the Hill called on the Department of Justice to find out why he was murdered. U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi ordered the FBI to determine whether Johnny Roselli's testimony about the CIA plot to get Castro might somehow have led to his end in an oil drum bobbing on the surface of Dumfoundling...
...Congressman's payroll as a clerk but had served mostly as his mistress. In June, Hays entered a hospital in Barnesville, Ohio, suffering from an overdose of drugs, and shortly thereafter he was stripped of his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. Now facing probes by the FBI and a federal grand jury, plus a hearing before the House Ethics Committee, which had planned to call Ray as a witness, the Congressman has elected to retire when his term expires next January. Said he: "I don't want to give that woman another chance to make an appearance...