Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could call another 70 to testify about various dirty tricks-wiretaps, burglaries, and the kidnaping of Soviet agents for interrogation by the CIA. But aside from future dangers, many FBI men are concerned about the Justice Department's investigation of how five agents handled a wiretapping case in Richmond...
Lost Evidence. In June a maintenance man notified the FBI's Richmond office that he had discovered a wiretapping device on the telephone line of Jamil Ramaden, a radio salesman of Palestinian ancestry. The device turned out to belong to the Richmond police department, which had not bothered to get a court order. (The reasons for the tap have never been disclosed.) Even so, Assistant U.S. Attorney G. Rodney Sager decided not to prosecute the case after he was told that there was no proof that the tap had ever been used. The agents returned the equipment...
...with children has lately found the city by the bay to be as chilly as a fog rolling in through the Golden Gate. A recent survey by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission revealed that 69% of landlords in the Marina, 60% in the Sunset and 50% in the Richmond neighborhoods refuse to rent to applicants with children. With a vacancy rate of only 2% in the city, this left little room for anyone with youngsters...
...Wheeler sees a bright future for commuter airlines like his. With traffic rising steadily, he is contemplating adding flights to Richmond and Baltimore during the next two years. Piedmont appears unworried, even though Wheeler already competes with his employer between Raleigh, Charlotte and Norfolk. "They say do your own thing," says Wheeler. And he has. Not long ago, Wheeler turned down a promotion to captain at Piedmont because the added flying duties would cut into the time he needs to nurture his airline...
...Hats. The victory, together with the World Championship Tennis title that he won in Dallas last May, puts Ashe at the very top of his profession for the first time. Son of a policeman, he learned tennis at the age of ten from a black physician in Richmond, Va., who hoped to develop the first black player to win the national Interscholastic Championships. Ashe won that tournament in 1961. As a freshman at U.C.L.A. in 1963, he achieved top-ten ranking among U.S. tennis players and has remained there...