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The President at first asked that the FBI tap the telephones of several reporters, including two at the New York Times, and of at least four of his own White House aides. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover resisted, on the grounds that the practice would be indefensible if discovered. Hoover...
The Brandt visit had some lighter moments. The Chancellor slipped off for some fishing aboard the U.S. Naval Academy commandant's yacht. The only catch was a small rockfish landed by a U.S. protocol officer. The next day, when Nixon received him at the White House, Brandt complained: "There...
Scotland stands to benefit too. Aberdeen, once a somnolent fishing city, has become the undisputed center of the oil rush. Some 250 companies, many of them American-owned, are supplying everything from helicopters to hot meals for the drillers; unemployment in the city has dropped to 2.7%, half the Scottish...
Perhaps an even more important catch was Joe Cahill, 53, onetime Provo chief in Belfast and No. 2 man in the movement, who had dropped out of sight following the imprisonment of Provo Chief Sean MacStiofáin. Cahill and five other smugglers were unloading the arms from the coaster...
"The developer is here applying for a fishing license," Mahoney said, "so that he may forcibly obtain a private site and try to make his fortune from it."