Word: harassment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of Munro's dispatches are accompanied by pictures taken by his wife Julie. They have not experienced the intimidation that is sometimes inflicted upon Western correspondents in Moscow, where the government has been known to harass foreign reporters (it expelled an American journalist on currency-violation charges earlier this year). When the Chinese want to express their displeasure with a correspondent they do so simply by ignoring him?and living in Peking without access to the bureaucracy or permission to travel can be like being stranded on some barren planet...
...class; the average age is 64. Also there is Hemmet Wholesale nursery which employs 150-200 agricultural workers. They voted to be represented by the UFW two years ago, and it has been two years of stalling negotiations. Our job was to bring Hemmet Wholesale to the negotiating table, harass the people connected with Hemmet Wholesale, and build up support in the town. We began with a petition of support on which we got some 500 signatures. We presented the list to the city council, the mayor, Robert Lindquist Sr., seniro partner of Hemmet Wholesale, is chairman of the board...
...Laws and Practices, an amalgam of several organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Indian Movement. For different reasons, both legal and illegal Hispanic residents find dangers in the Carter plan. Those who hold U.S. citizenship are fearful that the program would empower federal agents to harass Hispanics in general in an intensified search for those without proper papers. If Hispanic leaders accept the five-year work permit idea, insists Alberto Juarez, director of a legal aid program in East Los Angeles, "we will be lulling people into a situation where we will face massive deportations." Hispanic...
What Others Did As Lasky notes, Franklin Roosevelt did use the FBI to harass prominent people who publicly opposed U.S. involvement in World War II. Jack and Robert Kennedy did wiretap newsmen and Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson did employ the FBI for partisan political purposes in gathering intelligence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. The Kennedys did conduct a dirty campaign against Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia primary...
...book published last week, The Grand Jury: An Institution on Trial, U.S. Judge Marvin Frankel and Attorney Gary Naftalis conclude: "The Grand Jury has served too often to harass the unorthodox and the unpopular." Several reforms suggested by Frankel and Naftalis appear in a bill submitted by U.S. Representative Joshua Eilberg. The proposed law would...