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...largest margin-500,000 votes -in the state's history and within two years was counted among the most successful Governors in the country. His impressive string of accomplishments included stiff environmental protection laws, a no-fault insurance plan, a remarkably popular lottery and a multimillion-dollar mass-transit system. Moreover, he had delighted New Jersey voters by wooing the New York Giants into moving across the Hudson with a new football stadium that will open in 1975. By almost any measure, he seemed a cinch for re-election to a second term this year. ¶Then things began...
...Arnholt Smith seemed to personify the American Dream. A high school dropout and former grocery clerk, he rose to the ownership of a major league baseball team (the San Diego Padres) and became head of a financial empire that included one of California's largest banks and a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with interests that ranged from hotels, real estate and insurance to tuna-fishing fleets, canneries and a commuter airline. He became the chum of a President, so close to Richard Nixon that the two watched the 1968 election returns together on television. He was so respected...
Another case raises questions about Petersen's performance. On March 6, at Petersen's direction, the FBI discontinued its wiretaps and electronic bugs, installed with court approval, that uncovered a Mafia scheme to harvest payoffs and kickbacks from the multimillion-dollar welfare funds of the Teamsters Union, which has become Nixon's closest political ally in organized labor. In a decision protested by department officials, Petersen ruled that there was "insufficient" cause to continue the wiretaps. His edict stopped the eavesdropping after FBI agents discovered that Los Angeles gangsters seeking to tap the union welfare fund...
...ancient sites is an ancient custom. A great deal of the treasure in the world's museums was originally pirated by foreign powers or smuggled out. Today the countries of the world officially operate on more elevated principles-but art thievery thrives as never before. It is a multimillion-dollar business that gets amphetamine shots from events like the Met's $ 1,000,000 calyx krater purchase. Tragically, it is also leading to the wholesale destruction of archaeological treasures, and occasionally murder along with theft...
...Federal government has reached an agreement with Columbia University, and will no longer delay its release of a multimillion dollar contract with the institution...