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Rosenthal's statement followed the revelation that Safran informed the Press of his CIA funding in November 1984, prior to the publication of the book...
...Safran had failed to disclose properly a CIA of grant of $45,700 for a conference on Islam and Muslim Politics held three months ago. Spence reached the same conclusion after a brief investigation prior to the conference, but allowed it to go forward after Safran agreed to reveal the CIA funding to all participants. More than half the scheduled participants boycotted the October meetings after learning of the CIA grant...
...evidence to convict him of other crimes. In dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the court's decision created a new "right" only for offenders who persisted in criminal activity even while under indictment for other crimes. Said the angry chief: "Nothing whatever in the Constitution or our prior opinions supports this bizarre result...
...council was acting on the prior recommendation of the city's Historical Commission to save the Houghton beech tree, located between Harvard and Central Squares, from the bulldozer's path...
...hunger strikes to secure an exit visa for Bonner, who suffers from glaucoma and heart trouble, so that she might receive medical treatment in the West. Before she left for Italy, where she consulted her ophthalmologist, then met briefly with Premier Bettino Craxi and Pope John Paul II prior to leaving for heart treatment in the U.S., Bonner explained that her three-month visa had been approved on the condition that she not talk to the press. "I have to be able to come back," she told reporters. "I know you don't want to see Andrei left...