Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former chairman of the A.B. A.'s Committee on the Federal Judiciary. Siegel is deeply upset by Haynsworth's nomination, believing that it violates the principles that he tried to establish on the judiciary committee. Were he still chairman of the group, Siegel has let it be known, he would probably have testified against the nomination in Senate hearings...
Assuming that it was blowing their way, a faction of the sundered Students for a Democratic Society known as "The Weatherman" took to Chicago's streets last week in a desperate attempt to re-ignite the violence that marked the Democratic National Convention, One lure was the trial of eight radicals accused of conspiring to incite the 1968 upheaval. But the youngsters had a selection of excuses for agitation: the second anniversary of Che Guevara's death, their avowed goal of "bringing the war home," the desire to upstage more moderate modes of protest...
Turner admitted failing to pay income tax on the $6,800 profit from the gun sales, claiming that he had not known that "hobby" income was taxable. He also explained that he had lost his account ledger but filed amended tax returns this month to reflect the sales. Said Senator Charles Percy in disbelief: "It seems to me that not showing this profit in your tax returns has nothing to do with seeking a loophole. This is evasion. You are either incredibly naive or you have evaded payment of income taxes...
...contract carriers, Air America and Continental Airlines, have for years provided tactical support for the most effective government force in Laos-General Vang Pao's Meo tribesmen. The CIA men and the military advisers train, equip, support and transport the entire Royal Laotian military effort. Americans have been known to advise on tactics on the battalion level...
Scialoja, an experienced sailor known to be sympathetic to the resistance, agreed. He rounded up three men and a woman as crew and located a 30-ft. cabin cruiser. Meanwhile, resistance agents contacted Mylonas and alerted him to watch for a group of tourists during his daily lunches at Kyria Aspasia, the only taverna on desolate Amorgos...