Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killing sea of oil off Southern California grew ever wider and more elusive. Though the eleven-day leak on Union Oil Company's offshore rig had been successfully plugged, its 800-sq.-mi. slick returned with each tide. And it was fed anew by a residual leak under Platform A that appeared last week...
...finish was extraordinary. Chris Gallagher--now the ninth highest scorer in Harvard history--sank two free throws to give the Crimson a 69-68 lead with 2:17 to go. On the ensuing play, McMillian fed Dotson for a layup which became a three-point play and put Columbia ahead...
...could result in sentences ranging from 20 years' imprisonment to death. However, they may at least result in the swifter return of the skyjacked passengers, crews and planes. Frank Loy, deputy assistant secretary of state for transportation and telecommunications, told a congressional committee last week that Castro is "fed up" with the skyjackings. If they continue at their present rate, he said, the Cuban government "may adopt measures of its own" to stop them...
There is an uneasy mood in Moscow these days, caused by reverberations from the shots fired by a would-be as sassin at the cosmonauts' parade in the Kremlin last month. In a country that is purposefully fed warnings of constant plots, the official Soviet dismissal of the gunman as a schizophrenic has not put the Russians at ease. Twice in So viet history, assassination attempts have served as a pretext for savage repression. The unsuccessful attempt on Lenin in 1918 triggered the Red Terror, in which thousands of Russians fell be fore Bolshevik firing squads; the killing...
...Church of Scientology six years ago confiscated neither food nor drugs. Instead, they carted off books, pamphlets, and a collection of electronic gadgets called E-meters. In court, the Government said that the literature had made misleading statements about the machines' curative powers and had thus violated the fed eral law against improper labeling. A federal jury agreed. Last week, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., reversed that decision...