Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA's concern was understandable. Last fall Congress slashed $342 million from the agency's $767 million space-station funding request, then voted $25 million in start-up money for ISF. NASA resistance to the mini-station had prompted a group of Senators led by Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire to hold up some $97 million in funding until the space agency would go along with the smaller project...
...request came after a group calling itself "Students for White Supremacy" posted racist flyers around the campus, said John O. Williams, president of the BSU. The flyers contained racial slurs such as "Darkies don't belong in classrooms, they belong hanging from trees...
Justice Department agent William Hall, who conducted a similar investigation at the school last year, will begin next week to try to identify the persons responsible for the flyers, Williams said. Last year's investigation, also at the BSU's request, proved inconclusive, he said...
...investigation conducted last year by the Civil Rights Commission at the request of the BSU revealed that there may be a single group behind the distribution of racist material at a number of colleges nationwide, Williams said...
...purpose or justification for the extensive surveillance. Paranoia about communism, not national security, seems to be the motive behind the FBI's actions. Just last September, the FBI asked libraries to lookout for "diplomats of countries hostile to the U.S., particularly the Soviet Union." Fortunately, most librarians found the request to be a ludicrous and flagrant violation of the right to privacy and flatly refused to cooperate. As the director of the New York Library Association asked, "Does anyone with an accent come under suspicion...