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...surveillance and sabotage against a wide variety of right-and left-wing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not until 1971, a year before his death, did Hoover, alarmed by the threat of exposure, suspend the program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence exposed the full scope of COINTELPRO'S partly unconstitutional mission in 1975, but only last week did the full extent of the FBI's dirty tricks become public. Reporters from eight news organizations, who had demanded to see the files under the Freedom of Information...
...workshop on women in entry and mid-level positions, Jeanne Khan, the only women in the Defense Audit Agency to serve as an administrative officer, said academic degrees are less important in acquiring top-level positions than the fundamental decision to "select power...
...student members of CUE will select the winners, with the advice of the faculty CUE members, by interviewing students who made nominations and by visiting classes, Grabar added...
Investigating whether organized crime has moved into juvenile prostitution, the New York State select legislative committee on crime last week heard testimony from young prostitutes and concerned police and social welfare officials. The committee found that the Mafia has begun moving back into prostitution, which it had largely abandoned in the 1930s in favor of more lucrative drug and loan-sharking rackets. Mobsters of the Genovese Mafia family are alleged to control many of the topless and bottomless bars, where youthful dancers are enticed into prostitution. The racketeers are also believed to own quick-turnover hotels where prostitutes work...
...prices in France, South Africa, Australia, Canada and the U.S., in order to stay clear of local antitrust rules. But whenever a member company learned of a potential order from an outside country-Japan, say, or Spain-it had to inform the secretariat. The cartel would then select a member to bid at a price it had set; to preserve appearances, another member would be chosen to bid at a higher price sure to be rejected. The cartel also imposed penalties on members. On one occasion, it ordered Gulfs Canadian subsidiary to buy 300 tons of uranium from an Australian...