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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Huff, were even put on his staff payroll and paid $20,000 a year. In 1963 Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow, won a $46,500 defamation judgment against Powell, who on TV called her a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. For nearly five years he managed to avoid payment, partly by staying out of New York except on Sundays, when legal papers are not served...
...Graduate Student Association at Pennsylvania voted to support the sit-in and urged students to withhold payment of tuition and rent until the university guarantees a tuition and rent rollback to the previous level...
...students each--pressure is already being placed upon department heads to abolish sections in upper level courses. Tutorial might become optional; sophomore tutorial might disappear. It is also conceivable that many graduate students would choose to withdraw from the university after fulfilling their residence requirement (thus by-passing tuition payment), and seek outside jobs. The number of teaching fellows then available would drop below even that minimum level which the administration recognizes as necessary for undergraduate education...
...assignment as an antisubmarine warfare and torpedo specialist at the British naval base in Portsmouth, and Maureen delivered it to the Russian embassy in London. After he left the hospital, the Soviets invited him to London for a meeting. Over vodka, they gave him $1,200 as an initial payment, as well as instructions to photograph "anything of interest." Using his security clearance to gain access to secret documents, Bingham took photographs of among other things, sonar detection systems and wartime contingency plans of the British fleet. "The damage you have done is incalculable," declared the sentencing judge...
Despite their new source of income, the Binghams were unable to get out of debt. A finance company threatened to report them to the police for selling a car before they had completed payment on it. Bingham was becoming desperate, and was eventually even driven to pawning the camera the Soviets had given him. He also felt increasingly guilty about selling secrets to the Russians. One day last August, he sought out a senior officer aboard his ship in Portsmouth. "I am and have been for a number of years a Soviet agent," he declared. (Actually, according to the Attorney...