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...Lawrence Grossman said the CIA's move "caught us by surprise," since the network had aired virtually the same report last November, when Pelton was arrested. Indeed, details on similar submarine eavesdropping operations were revealed in articles in the New York Times and Washington Post as early as the mid-1970s, and the code name Ivy Bells was used by Pelton's attorney in a pretrial hearing...
...British and American bases in Libya and negotiated shrewd deals with Western oil companies to yield greater revenues for Libya. With that money, Gaddafi set about to make good on his promises of free housing, medical care and education for Libya's citizens, something he largely accomplished by the mid-1970s...
...Hong Kong, the Tung family fleet of some 150 ships has nearly gone aground because of $2 billion in debts. A group of the Tungs' bankers helped bail out the company this month by giving it easier payment terms. The demand for cargo ships has been slackening since the mid-1970s, when oil prices went up and industrial countries began cutting back their imports. At the same time, shippers were taking delivery of huge fleets of carriers they had ordered when times were better. These modern craft, which feature highly automated loading gear, aggravate the surplus because they spend less...
Hirsch cited two incidents in the mid-1970s in which he said the security of MIT's reactor was less than adequate...
...mid-1970s, a Congressional investigation revealed that the CIA had secretly funded hundreds of books in the United States and abroad in an attempt to counter Soviet propaganda efforts...