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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City Council voted last month to join the Red Line Alert's injunction suit--now pending in federal distrcit court--despite a letter from MBTA chairman Robert Kiley warning that court battles might jeopardize nearly half a billion dollars in UMTA funds earmarked for the project...

Author: By Ronald D. Ryan, | Title: City Questions MBTA | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

...object to the invitation to someone associated with an image the Republican Party should not have," Berenson said yesterday. He also said in his resignation letter an invitation to Nixon could have "devastating consequences" for the Republican Party...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Nixon Invited By Republicans To Give Talk | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

...known, for example, that the FBI sent an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King in 1963 suggesting that he commit suicide and that they tried to prevent him from meeting with Pope Paul VI in 1964. It is known that the FBI circulated false personal letters in the press and the mails for the purpose of discrediting participants in the anti-war movement. It is known that the FBI's largest dollar and man-hour activity was "No. 1-type activity"--activity aimed at "preventing people from teaching and meeting and speaking," according to the Senate Subcommittee on Intelligence...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Skeletons From the Closet | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...March 26, 1968, agent G.C. Moore set forth a plan to "curtail the success" of King's "poor people's march on Washington D.C." In his letter--which was obtained by the Select Senate Committee--Moore pointed out that the SCLC had solicited financial contributions from some 70,000 possible donors by mail. He suggested that this fact be publicized through "cooperative media contacts" to imply "that King does not need contributions from the 70,000 people he solicited. Since the churches have offered support, no more money is needed and any contributed would only be used by King...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Skeletons From the Closet | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

Eighty Tufts faculty members signed a letter protesting the grant last year, accusing Tufts administrators of lying about the nature of what the letter called "the Philippine dictatorship" justify accepting the gift. Students circulated a similar petition...

Author: By David M. Johnson, | Title: Marcos Foundation Postpones Funding For Chair at Tufts | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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