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Beyond that, one of the stolen documents dealt with a Moscow, Idaho, Boy Scout leader named Thomas Ingerson who had requested visas from the Soviet embassy for his troop to make a Russian tour this summer. Another file contained a directive from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, saying in part: "Increased campus disorders involving black students pose a definite threat to the nation's stability and security and indicate need for increase in both quality and quantity of intelligence information . . . [concerning such] groups which are targets for influence and control by the violence-prone Black Panther party and other...
...pros, including Greg Northington, a 7-ft. 1½. center from Alabama State who averages 20 rebounds per game; Georgetown's Ken Davis (32-pt. average); and Mike Ratliff, a rugged 6-ft. 10-in. junior center from Eau Claire. But four players in particular, according to the scouts, have "can't miss" written all over them. Travis Grant of Kentucky State, a 6-ft. 8-in., 225-lb. forward, is rated by a Knicks scout as "the best shooting forward in the country today." A hustling rebounder who plays well at both ends of the court, Grant...
Acutely aware of their vulnerability, Japanese companies are sending teams of geologists and businessmen all over the world to scout for new sources and bid aggressively for existing supplies. The first of two new high-level missions, headed by Wataru Tajitsu, chairman of The Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd., will leave Japan this month to search out new oil sources in Australia, Papua and New Guinea. Japanese crews are exploring for oil-or preparing to do so -from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Siam, in Alaska, Colombia...
...year-old Catholic boy in Belfast's Ballymurphy district had his hand blown off as he was about to hurl a gelignite bomb at a British patrol. A five-year-old Catholic girl, Denise Dickson, was killed in the New Lodge Road district when a British scout car ran her over while chasing a gang of youths...
...military leaders themselves, Stone suggested that the Vietnam war serve as an object lesson in how dumb the Joint Chiefs of Staff are. General Westmoreland, for years enthusiastic about fighting the war, was only "a boy scout who had been at Harvard Business School," he said...