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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt to pressure Harvard to divest itself of its stocks in South Africa "is a very noble aspiration, but students are going about it the wrong way." Richard J. Miller '81 said yesterday...
...June 1976, one of the team members has disclosed to TIME, they swooped down on Washington's J. Edgar Hoover Building, "virtually with guns drawn," in hopes of seizing evidence before it could be hidden or destroyed. The raiding party took control of a number of rooms, and "we combed the place." Nonetheless, they came away emptyhanded. By granting immunity to 53 FBI agents in exchange for information, Pottinger eventually built a case against members of the FBI's Squad 47, based in the bureau's New York office, which spearheaded the Weatherman investigation...
TIME has learned that the cover-up included not telling investigators immediately about documents stored for five years in a filing cabinet in the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Among them were memos from Mark Felt-dubbed "one-liners" by investigators-giving Edward Miller explicit orders for break-ins and other illegal activities. The cabinet, say FBI sources, was tucked away in a corner of a little-used public room of the building and only came to light when a low-level employee suggested that it was an eyesore and should be thrown out. But it was opened first...
Moreover, many FBI agents remain unhappy at the disciplinary measures faced by their colleagues. Some were particularly upset with Bell's treatment of J. Wallace LaPrade, 51, an assistant FBI director and head of the bureau's New York office. According to investigators, he was vulnerable to perjury charges for denying to a grand jury in January 1977 that the FBI had acted illegally in the Weatherman cases. Bell stripped LaPrade of his New York command and called on him to resign, but LaPrade refused, hired a lawyer and took his case to the public...
...Willard F. Rockwell Jr., chairman of Rockwell International Corp., got $636,000 last year, an increase of 27% on a 17% profit gain. Reginald H. Jones, chairman of General Electric Co., received $687,000, a boost of 11%, reflecting a 17% profit rise. Chiefs taking pay cuts included John J. Riccardo, chairman of Chrysler. With company profits down 61%, he received $427,000, a 38% reduction from the year before...