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Word: feds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst bargain on the street represents a pillar of the neighborhood's economy: pornographic magazines-20 to 35 pages of sexually explicit pictures for $3 and up-and high-priced peep shows, strip joints and "adult" movies. Fed by a clientele that includes hustlers, briefcase-carrying businessmen and tourists, the street is riding a sex boom strong enough to pay the rent on some of the city's most expensive real estate. As restrictions have relaxed, the pornography market has become more explicit and more selective. The owner of one of the street's nameless bookstores (titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: Tell All the Gang on 42nd Street | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...Army is not alone in its domestic intelligence operations, though its presence is perhaps the most unexpected. Other branches of government, particularly Justice and the Treasury, carry on similar activities. The Justice Department, for instance, maintains an even bigger computer in its "domestic war room" which is fed FBI intelligence reports in raw form. (One might here ask to what extent such information is obtained from wiretaps.) In addition Secret Service inputs data concerning threats to the President, information on demonstrations, abusive statements, and plans to embarrass government officials. Weekly computerized intelligence reports give a city-by-city assessment...

Author: By Brad Bradley, | Title: The Surveillance Scene: Everyone Must Know | 10/15/1970 | See Source »

Militant students and teachers compound the problem. "It seems logical to assume that there is a cell of subversives on the faculty," said Lee Dorfman of Scarsdale. "Those of us who have been putting up money to pay such teachers are fed up with the whole plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taxpayers to the Barricades | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...example, many black enlisted men are fed up with fighting and dying for a racist America. A majority of black GI's in the survey feel that they have no business fighting in Southeast Asia. They say their fight is in the United States, against repression and racism. A frightening number - 45 per cent of black combat troops - say they would join riots and take up arms if necessary, to get the rights they have been deprived of at home. The spirit of black militancy has enveloped the GI on the battle ground in much the same manner...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii.), | Title: Bringing the War Home... | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

Black soldiers, schooled in the violent arts of guerrilla war as no generation of blacks, are returning home from Southeast Asia, fed up with dying in a war they believe is white man's folly and determined to earn their share of American opportunities even if it means becoming a Black Panther or turning to guns...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii.), | Title: Bringing the War Home... | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

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