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...Democratic primary. Five months after his defeat, he was charged with accepting a bribe in an attempt, as a Congressman, to persuade the Justice Department to go easy on a convicted savings-and-loan swindler.*He was found guilty, given a $40,000 fine and a six-month jail sentence, which was suspended because...
...Rhodesia uses only 280,000 tons a year, virtually all of it piped in from the port of Beira in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to a new refinery at Umtali on the Rhodesian border. Normally, the nation has only a six-week reserve, but there are signs that Ian Smith has been quietly stockpiling a six-month supply. This would not be too hard, for oil supplies only 27% of Rhodesia's energy, primarily for autos and airplanes, with the bulk of its factories, utilities and its trains still coal-powered...
When Maher indicated this summer that he would run again, he asked Brennan for a six-month leave of absence. Brennan refused, and Maher resigned. It is believed that Maher received a heavy vote from police officers and their friends and relatives...
Lindsay, obviously tired after his six-month campaign, continued to rely heavily on his opposition to machine politics and the Democratic Party bosses...
...made a series of peace offers which Washington has ignored by leaving their consideration to the government in Saigon. During the last week in July, the New York Times reported that the Viet Cong proposed a coalition government formed by direct elections, allowing the U.S. a six-month period of withdrawl from the country. The offer was rejected by Saigon and left unexplored by the United States, which clearly found the prospect of Communist victory in the elections unthinkable...