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...gives the unions two seats on the boards of directors of firms with 100 or more employees. This law is not considered an extension of union power so much as a way to obtain necessary insights into the operations of large firms...
...secrets." The American official to whom he renounced his citizenship in Moscow, the people who received him when he returned to the U.S., his associates in Dallas and New Orleans, and even his cousin can be traced to the CIA. Most crucially, Oswald travelled to Mexico City attempting to obtain a Cuban visa during precisely the two months in the summer of 1963 when Howard Hunt was CIA station chief there...
...made his original fortune running hardware stores, actually acquired two plants in Canada's New Brunswick province and started making his unconventional Bricklin cars. Now two secured creditors and the New Brunswick government, which had put up more than $20 million in cash and loan guarantees to obtain 67% control of Bricklin Canada Ltd., have placed the company in receivership, closing the plants. Bricklin himself proclaimed last week at a press conference in Toronto that "the Bricklin car will continue to be built in New Brunswick." That sounded like whistling in the dark-especially since Bricklin had already gone...
Bruce Bassett, vice president for fiscal management at Columbia, said yesterday that Columbia will obtain the unrestricted loan in place of a bond issue that the university had been asking since last spring. The present bond market makes bond issues "impractical," he said...
...found guilty under the act is five years to death, but those held under the act are not given trial, and no one knows how many people are presently being detained. A prominent South African newspaper wrote in an editorial this summer that "It is becoming more difficult to obtain the figures even from unofficial sources such as parents, family or friends. Fear is making people suspicious and reluctant to talk, overcoming even their concern for their loved ones." The South African Council of Churches this summer said the powers given the police under the Terrorism Act are "cruel, frightening...