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Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a member of NORML's advisory board, will argue the suit for the Washington-based public-interest group...
Almost everywhere farmers reveled in the record high prices for their harvests. In Ramsey County in the heart of North Dakota's wheat country, people told the tale of the farmer on the verge of selling his durum wheat for $7.20 per bu. (compared with $1.35 last year) who slipped out to the toilet. By the time he returned, the price had jumped 600. In Maine, clam diggers pocketed $18 per bu. for clams that brought $10 per bu. last year. Tuna harpooners sold their catches for 650 per lb., compared with 150 last year. The food producer...
...long ago that Keith Stroup, head of NORML, appeared to be a rather improbable lobbyist, but now he and his Washington-based organization believe that they are at the threshold of success. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark will soon file a NORML suit in Washington federal district court arguing that the capital's pot-possession laws are unconstitutional. A favorable decision there would add credence to Stroup's prediction that marijuana may be legal nationwide...
...Eisenhower Administration, there were 115. By 1964 the number had risen to 260, including a wiretap on the telephone of Martin Luther King, which Robert Kennedy had authorized because the FBI suspected that some of King's aides had Communist ties. Under Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the number of taps dropped to a low of 82 in 1968, and they were largely confined to foreign diplomats and their agents...
...Lyndon Johnson's Administration undoubtedly influenced the Nixon men. Johnson resisted the temptation to use the ever more sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment for domestic intelligence. But by the late 1960s he sought desperately for a way to cope with widespread and often simultaneous urban riots. Attorney General Ramsey Clark sent a tough memo to FBI Director...