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...entering. During the trial of Daniel Ellsberg last week, a memo from the Justice Department was handed to U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne. It disclosed that two of the convicted Watergate conspirators-G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt-had broken into the office of a psychiatrist to obtain files dealing with Ellsberg. A grim-faced Byrne ordered the document revealed to the defense. Then he told the prosecution that he wanted all the additional facts behind the breakin. Were the pair working for the U.S. Government at the time? he wanted to know...
...Eastern Europe, a CIA team tries to obtain a sample of a Communist party chief's urine. Purpose: to determine his state of health. The CIA did this successfully with Egypt's late King Farouk but failed recently with Yugoslavia's President Tito...
...Confi Guide is prone to inaccuracies due to the traditional lack of response to its guestionnaires," he said. He added that the CUE should obtain a better sampling of opinion than the Confi Guide since the questionnaires will be handed out and completed in class...
Wilcox said yesterday that he and President Bok are attempting to obtain other outside funds to help compensate for this year's losses. The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation donated $50,000 this year for nine graduate students writing theses in the humanities...
...expecting friends, Picasso read or worked until 2 or 3 in the morning. "Work is what commands my schedule," he told a friend. "Daylight is perfect to contact friends -which is always a must with an artist -and go out. In our modern times, we can obtain excellent light at night -which we could never do with the yellowish shades of old lamps-and I also have silence...