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...organization, the Union Corse is more tightly knit and more secretive than its Sicilian counterpart. U.S. agencies have been able to obtain information from all levels of the Mafia clans in the U.S., but not from the Union Corse. "When the Mafioso is spilling his guts," says one U.S. intelligence official, "the Corsican is still silent-refusing even to give you his name." In the early 1960s, for instance, a Union Corse member who called himself Antoine Rinieri was arrested in New York with a suspected narcotics payoff of $247,000 in cash. In the Corsican tradition, he refused...
...decision "invites state and Federal authorities to undermine the historic independence of the press by attempting to annex the journalistic profession as an investigative arm of government" is well taken. Unfortunately, the Court's decision creates an atmosphere in which the likelihood of a reporter being able to obtain information which could weigh on an investigation is slim indeed...
Farber said yesterday that he is "extremely pleased" with the trip. He said it enabled him to obtain "factual information and insights that will prove extremely helpful in conveying to those in the Harvard community who are interested what the facts are about Gulf and Angola...
Similar magazines have been founded this summer by Flathead Indians in Ronan, Mont., Chicanes in Berkeley, Calif., Navajos in Ramah, N. Mex., and both Indians and Eskimos in Alaska. Unlike Foxfire's originators, who began with $400 raised from parents and friends, the other groups can obtain money and guidance from IDEAS, Inc., a Washington-based educational foundation that has hired Wigginton as its $425-a-month adviser. Wig has settled permanently in Rabun Gap, where he is building a log cabin home. Now 29, he summered in the town as a child with his father...
Cancer Society officials, who hope to obtain organizational recognition and funding for Harris' program, agree with University of Southern California Psychiatrist Judd Marmor that the project "can also be therapeutic for the person who is doing the helping. It gives him a purpose in life at a point where the curtain seems to be drawing down...