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...quickly notified. The bodies of convicts were labeled "PI, P2, P3." As late as four days after the gunfire, relatives of some convicts were still refused information on whether their sons or husbands were alive or dead. Those who were notified received the news in terse telegrams. One read: REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR HUSBAND RAYMOND RIVERA NUMBER 29533 HAS DECEASED. THE BODY REPOSES AT THIS INSTITUTION...
...continuing war and for a "retreat from the Bill of Rights" through censorship, wiretapping and the illegal arrests of Mayday demonstrators. Nixon, he said, refuses to impose wage and price controls to check inflation, ignores the poor while seeking a $250 million loan guarantee for Lockheed Aircraft. "I regret," he said, "that new directions cannot emerge from a Republican Party that has finally become a closed institution...
...alas, the fortunate possessor of Italian primitives," he tiredly explains. "I do not live in a house once occupied by Beethoven. I do not, to my regret, own one of Beethoven's pianos. These are myths, fantasies, inventions. That company got nearly everything wrong except my birthday...
Hurst immediately set to work to purge faculty members who were "not interested in the community, the school or the students." He now concedes that he used every technique "including intimidation," a precedent he could regret if the community ever turns against him. By the end of his first year, over half the original faculty had left. Chancellor of City Colleges Oscar E. Shabat ran powerful interference with the infuriated teachers' union, and Hurst assembled a faculty that is more than 60% black (he aims for 80%). It is heavy with recruits who had become frustrated by the city...
...Martha Mitchell on the phone again, this time speaking her mind to the Washington Star. "I resent, regret and abhor that the news media has (sic) taken upon itself to interfere with possible lines of communication with the Viet Cong," announced Martha. Criticizing the continued publication of the Pentagon papers, she blasted "the indiscreet judgment that smells of political implications on the part of the press, which has reached such an extent that it may result in complete suppression of the press-in which event it will have caused its own death." Though it may have come as a surprise...