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Response to Pressure. From the beginning, the case has been shrouded in obloquy and obfuscation. An initial county grand jury charged only the seven Panthers. Then a federal grand jury, investigating whether the civil rights of Hampton and Clark had been violated by police, declined to indict anyone, but did report that-contrary to police claims-there was evidence that only one bullet had been fired by the Panthers compared with at least 82 by police. Shortly before the federal grand-jury report, Prosecutor Hanrahan's office had abruptly reversed itself and decided to drop the Panther indictments because...
...series of documents that have sparked a continuing dispute over racial differences. It follows the 1965 Moynihan report that attributed many problems of blacks to their matriarchal families; the 1966 study by sociologist James Coleman that seemed to eliminate poor schools as a cause of failures, leading educators to indict black home life instead; and the controversial 1969 paper in which Psychologist Arthur Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley suggested that there might be an innate intellectual inferiority in the Negro...
...researchers believe their findings indict such particles as a cause of breast cancer, though they are unsure how the agent is transmitted. Mice and rats are known to pass mammary cancer to their young through their milk. No such relationship has yet been found between human nursing and breast cancer. Investigation of that possibility continues...
...Although Boggs has yet to produce evidence that his or any other Congressman's phone was ever tapped, reports surfaced last week that the bureau had monitored conversations and telephone calls between Representative John Dowdy, a Texas Democrat, and an FBI informer. The recorded conversations were used to indict Dowdy on March 30 for allegedly accepting $25,000 in a bribery conspiracy. This would seem to contradict the bureau's claim that it has never tapped a congressional phone. Technically, though, the FBI has a case: a Justice Department spokesman noted that although Dowdy's conversations were...
...view of many Americans, the awesome edifice of modern technology has become more a millstone than a spire. And the internal-combustion engine, which propelled an adoring U.S. public to the forefront of the 20th century, has become the critics' primary target. They indict it for polluting the air and disturbing the peace. The fuel that it burns has presented Texas oil barons and Middle Eastern potentates with generous profits, but there is growing public pressure for some alternative kind of engine...