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Helms appeared before a federal grand jury in Washington last November to testify on the role of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) in the CIA's attempt to prevent Allende's inauguration as president...
...accusations against Moisés Torrijos, now Panama's Ambassador to Spain, went back to 1971, when two Panamanians were arrested at New York's Kennedy Airport carrying 155 lbs. of heroin. A federal grand jury subsequently handed down a sealed indictment?which the Justice Department unsealed last week?charging that Moisés had helped to arrange the smuggling operation. Along with the indictment, antitreaty Senators cited a four-year-old, 20-page Senate intelligence committee report, also released last week, which said that "some sources" had testified that President Torrijos "knew about" drug trafficking by his brother and other Panamanian...
...deepened. "Left or right," shrugged the owner of a small porcelain shop in Paris' middle-class 18th arrondissement, "it's the same salad." Complained a nearby bistro owner: "The politicians always make a deal. Don't worry about that." In short, for many voters the campaign had become political Grand Guignol, masking power deals that were too arcane to fathom...
...Doing a bike repair job for Daisy (Virginia Vestoff), Frank falls in love with her. Daisy is a teacher who poignantly wonders how the quiet lessons of the classroom can ever erase from little children's minds the terrorist traumas of the streets. In flashback, Frank's grand father woos Kitty (Maria Tucci), an ardent prototypical feminist...
Clovis, N. Mex., police picked up rumors last year that a frisky housewife had been entertaining juveniles at sex parties in her home. After an inquiry, a Curry County grand jury indicted Mrs. Ernestine Favela, 23, married, mother of two small children, on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a 15-year-old boy. But two weeks ago, a divided state appeals court threw out the indictment. Judge Ramon Lopez explained that delinquency was defined as conduct that would be criminal in an adult, and noted that New Mexico had eliminated criminal penalties for consensual sex between adults. Concurring...