Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Raul Leoni went out to visit 20 miles from Caracas. Arriving at the site carved out of a hillside, he was shown around a one-story building and cautioned to follow his guides closely: the area was infested with booby traps. The place was a well-equipped munitions plant turning out everything from mortar shells to land mines for Castroite F.A.L.N. terror ists-thus proving once again Fidel Castro's determination to rip the hemisphere with Communist "wars of national liberation...
...constitutional command erects a wall of privacy that U.S. police cannot breach without a valid search warrant. But even so, the wall has gaping holes. Police are free to use evidence gained by peering in the locked windows of a private house; they can also plant electronic "bugs" on outside walls to record conversations inside. Unless they unlock the windows or pierce the walls, they need no warrant-for the moment at least, the line is drawn at actual physical intrusion...
Beyond Chair Legs. Gilbert Daniels, 38, national sales manager for a computer firm, found himself "traveling 15,000 miles a month between California and the East Coast," which took him away from his family and his plant collection. He lived off his stock dividends while earning a doctorate in botany at U.C.L.A., figures he will make less as a botanist "than I paid last year in income taxes." But, he says, "I will be earning a living while I indulge my interests-my two lives will be one again...
...million Ibs. of nickel oxide from Castro's Cuba. The ban is based on the U.S. law prohibiting imports of products made from Cuban materials. Compounding the affront to the U.S. is the fact that Le Nickel agreed to purchase its nickel oxide from Cuba's Nicaro plant, a rich source that had been owned by the U.S. Government and operated by National Lead Co. until Castro expropriated...
National output is already running lower than at the beginning of this year. Expenditure on new plant and equipment is declining, and a survey by the Confederation of British Industry suggests that home orders are falling and more firms are working below capacity. The Economist predicts that Britain's growth rate will not exceed 1 per cent in 1966, as compared with over 4 per cent...