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...them. His campaign, which staffers boast is the "best financed" of any Democratic contender, is running $200,000 in the black, and should become $300,000 blacker by the end of the year. The reason: a variety of fund-raising gimmicks. McGovern has used direct-mail solicitations overseen by Morris Dees (a Montgomery-based wizard who made his millions in the mail-order business). There have been conventional fund-raising luncheons like one in New York City last week, where 1,350 "Business and Professional Men and Women for McGovern" laid down $25 apiece to dine on chicken and mushrooms...
During the interim period, George A. Straight, associate librarian of the Law School Library, has administered the Library's staff of 70 persons and has overseen the maintenance of its 1.2 million volumes...
Another group of Soviet proteges who recently made news were the Turkish students involved in the kidnaping of four U.S. airmen two months ago. The students, it turned out, had received training from Soviet instructors in Syria. The Soviet "diplomat" who had overseen their activities in Turkey was subsequently transferred to-of all places-Ceylon...
...operation, Dewey Canyon II. was replaced by a Vietnamese name: Lam Son 719.* The switch was part of the coy effort to cast the invasion as an all-South Vietnamese effort, though it was initiated, planned and given the go-ahead in the White House, and was overseen by General Creighton W. Abrams. U.S. commander in South Viet Nam. The shift in code names also underscored the extent to which Indochina's long war has changed. As French Journalist and Guerrilla Historian Jean Larteguy (The Centurions) put it last week: "First you had Asians fighting the French. Then...
...January 13, 1969, fifteen prisoners were skin searched and ordered out to the special exercise yard of Soledad Prison. Guards, I believe, do not walk with the prisoners in the yard. Instead the prisoners are overseen by tower guards, who, from the high towers at the corners of the yard, look down at the prisoners through the sights of automatic rifles. This day, January 13, a fight broke out between a white and a black inmate. The tower guard began to fire at the black inmates walking in the yard. He fired four shots, and three men were killed...