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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Double Agent. The money was one factor. Freidin says that he was paid $30,000 plus $10,000 for expenses last year and a lesser amount in 1968. Actually, Freidin says, he was a double agent or maybe even a triple one. He told the Humphrey people in 1968 and the McGovern staff last year that he was working on a campaign book. While feeding information to the Republicans, he was really trying to gather material for an "inside" book about internal friction in the G.O.P. camp. He sees no distinction between what he did and the ploy used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Multiple Agent | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...recent article, "Watergate: A Skeptical View," radical scholar Noam Chomsky convincingly argues that Watergate is one of Nixon's lesser crimes. The affair, he maintains, has attracted extraordinary attention only because its victims were members of the powerful liberal establishment...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Watergate: A Miscalculation In Nixon's March to Fascism | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

...recent article, "Watergate: A Skeptical View," radical scholar Noam Chomsky convincingly argues that Watergate is one of Nixon's lesser crimes. The affair, he maintains, has attracted extraordinary attention only because its victims were members of the powerful liberal establishment...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Watergate: A Miscalculation In Nixon's March to Fascism | 9/19/1973 | See Source »

Hall later elaborated by saying that the soy substitute would be used only in dishes where it could be disguised: "In turkey a la king or chicken a la king, for example, some people even think it makes it taste better," he said. "But too much soy makes a lesser quality product. And we'll never put two soya products on the same menu...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Raisins Cut From Menu As Food Costs Soar | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...LESSER AND GREATER men and women have attempted to become Crimson editors, and some famous people have failed. Walter Lippman '10, a patron saint of journalism, was cut four times. William Randolph Hearst '96, the Xanadu of newspaper owners, never bothered to try out. And neither seemed the worse...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: The Crimson Starts Its Next 100 Years | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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