Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against antiwar elements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The suit was brought on behalf of 7,200 individuals and 1,000 groups on which the two agencies supposedly kept files, monitored calls and cables and opened mail. Among the defendants are four communications companies-RCA Global Communications, ITT World Communications, Western Union and American Cable and Radio Corp.-that allegedly cooperated with the agencies by helping them monitor communications. Of course it was the U.S. Government that persuaded the companies years ago to cooperate with the intelligence gathering, and, congressional staff members point out, the companies agreed...
...calls was told by its investigators that for years agents of either the FBI or the National Security Agency had visited the Washington offices of RCA Global Communications Inc. at 3 a.m. each day to photograph the cables that interested them. Similarly, the investigators said, FBI agents went to ITT World Communications Inc. in Washington every day and collected copies of all cables going to and coming from a selected list of countries. The practices apparently were continued until last spring, when the pressure of congressional investigations brought them to a halt...
Amid the propaganda of ITT Tech and the limpid claims of innumerable steak and bres, a smiling face on a subway car poster beams somewhat cryptically, "If your city government fights for you, you don't have to fight back." David A. Wylie, a lawyer and candidate for his second term on the City Council, thinks of himself as a fighter...
...plan for a mammoth, year-round resort in California's Mineral King valley, 16,000 acres of national forest land high in the southern Sierra Nevada. Controversy erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard's generation...
...case against John Connally hinged on the testimony of one man, Jake Jacobsen, and would never have been brought to court in normal times. Even more regrettable was the conviction for perjury of Attorney General Kleindienst, who actually threatened to resign when asked by Nixon to interfere with the ITT case, but denied to Sen Edward Kennedy's committee that such a request had ever been made...