Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faced was a cruel one: what to do about 68 FBI agents and supervisors who had violated federal laws while searching for members of the radical, bomb-throwing Weatherman group in the early 1970s. Agents had burglarized the revolutionaries' homes, tapped their phones without warrants and monitored their mail. Gray and two former top assistants, Deputy Director W. Mark Felt and Intelligence Chief Edward Miller, had earlier been charged with violating citizens' civil rights. But it was up to Webster to decide whether to discipline the 68 members of FBI Squad 47, which operated from...
...California law officers descended on a sparsely developed section of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Their quarry was Charles ("Chuck") Dederich, 65, the founder of Synanon, who was wanted in connection with an attempt in October to murder Los Angeles Attorney Paul Morantz with a rattlesnake hidden in his mail box. The officers found Dederich at home. Said Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John Watson: "He was in a stupor, staring straight ahead, with an empty bottle of Chivas Regal in front of him." Because his physical condition did not permit him to be formally arraigned in the local sheriffs office...
...brochure is slim, almost discreet, yet it has caused more anger in the art world than any book in recent memory. In gold capitals on a burgundy ground, its cover announces "The Nelson Rockefeller Collection." Inside it resembles-and is-a mail-order catalogue, with scores of lavishly shot objects. These range from an 18th century Chinese porcelain teapot stand ($65) to Age of Bronze, a nude youth by Rodin, at $7,500. Everything comes from Rockefeller's private collection-one of the most celebrated, public or private, in America. But everything is imitation. The Modigliani you can have...
...least one newsman made news as well as reported it: visiting Washington Columnist Robert Novak. One evening while Novak and the Globe and Mail's Fraser were talking to a crowd near the posters, Fraser remarked that his colleague might be granted an interview with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing ply following day. The astonished listeners, immediately began to ply Novak Novak questions for the Vice Premier. At the crowd's insistence, Novak said Teng had try to return the following evening to tell them what Teng had said. He failed to do so, pleading another...
...JEREMY SEDUCED ME, read a tittering headline in London's tabloid Daily Mail, as Britain's most lurid crime story in years entered a particularly purple phase. For a second week, a three-judge panel in Minehead, a remote town on the Somerset coast, was conducting a magistrate's hearing into charges that Jeremy Thorpe, 49, the dapper, old Etonian Liberal M.P. who had once been one of Britain's fastest rising political stars, had conspired to murder Norman Scott. A sometime male model, Scott had publicly proclaimed that he had once had a homosexual affair...