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Addressing an audience of about 15 students, John Brode, one of the candidates said that the primary goal of the group is to obtain a majority on the nine-member Cambridge City Council. This will allow the group to put through its programs...
After the Post story ran, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence pressed to obtain Hunt's testimony to get to the bottom of the accusations. The CIA pledged its cooperation. Anderson himself expressed shock. He recalled that he had received threats from the Mafia, but "I just didn't believe anyone [in the Nixon Administration] would seriously suggest murder...
...pages and television screens, House Minority Leader John Rhodes decided he had had enough. "What possible good purpose can come from this intense coverage of terrorist activity?" he demanded on the floor of the House. "Individuals of questionable mental stability will surely begin to conclude that they too can obtain national publicity and an enlarged forum for their views on redwood trees and other irrelevancies simply by attempting to gun down the President...
...ante is high, but in the unreal world of big-money defense contracts, the stakes are higher still. In Europe, Africa and the Middle East, uneasy rulers are channeling huge sums into sophisticated weapons systems, and American companies are fighting with each other and with foreign competition to obtain slices of the increasingly lucrative...
...regulations mean that drug manufacturers must conduct extensive -and expensive-studies in animals in order to obtain the "investigational new drug" permits, known as IND, that will allow them to administer their medications to humans in clinical tests. One result of these requirements is that the cost of introducing a new drug has climbed considerably, jumping from an average of $1.3 million in 1968 to $10.5 million today...