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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike also caused pensions, ranging from $225 to $250 a month, to be suspended for most of the hollow's retired miners. The pensions are financed by company-paid royalties of 55.4? for every ton of coal produced and 70 per man-hour worked when the mines are open...
Haldeman says he was puzzled in that conversation when Nixon told him what to tell the CIA: "Look, the problem is that this will open up the whole Bay of Pigs thing again." When Haldeman did ask CIA Director Richard Helms that day to intercede with the FBI, he reports he at first got nowhere. Helms insisted that no CIA operation would be compromised if the FBI traced the money through a Mexican bank. But then Haldeman did as he was told by Nixon, warning that "the Bay of Pigs may be blown...
...high living led to a financial squeeze. By 1956 he owed $1.25 million in taxes, In 1970 Louis was briefly committed to a psychiatric hospital by his family. The ex-champ eventually went to work as an official greeter for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Last November Louis had open-heart surgery in Houston, where he is still recuperating...
...months Carter had repeated his inept handling of a Justice Department matter. Twice he lied at his press conference. Twice he was caught. Both times, he presented a somewhat different story from that of his attorney general. Why did the president who campaigned on a platform of an "open administration deceive the American people? He wanted to hasten the removal of Marston because he was a Republican U.S. attorney determined to clean up the Democratic machine of Philadelphia. Replacing a federal appointee of an opposing political party was nothing new--political patronage has existed and been practiced by successive administrations...
About 11 p.m. Saturday night, someone banged on a fire door and it set off the alarm accidentally, Jonathan Band '81, a Canaday resident, said. Band said the alarms usually go off when someone presses on the lever to open the door...