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What is to be gained by such a transparent attempt to fend off the tax collector with the Bible? Hardenburgh's residents figure that dramatizing the absurdity of the situation will bring relief in the form of less generous exemption laws. Declares Town Supervisor Lester Bourke: "We are seeking salvation...
...young fellers, so young and so fine, seek not your fortunes way down in the mines." Kopple cuts abruptly to Nimrod Workman, a retired miner. Workman sits on his porch and tells about going into the mines at ten, working 18 and 20 hours a day. Once a supervisor told him not to take his mule into a dangerous part of the mine. "But what about me?" Workman asked. "We can always a hire another man," he was told, "but we have to buy that mule." Workman looks away, disbelief lingering after half a century. Finally he says, "Cared more...
Last week, the first felony indictment of an agent in the bureau's 69-year history was returned by a New York City grand jury. John J. Kearney, 55, a retired FBI special-unit supervisor, was named on five counts of illegal wiretapping, conspiracy and intercepting mail in the course of a futile hunt for Weather Underground terrorists between 1970 and 1972. Additional indictments of FBI officials, possibly reaching as high as the assistant director level, are expected soon. The message: Violations of the law, even in the name of law enforcement, are no longer to be automatically tolerated...
...INDICTMENT last week of John J. Kearney, former supervisor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York field office, on charges of criminal misconduct was a necessary and welcome first step in exposing and redressing the FBI's illegal activities over the last several years. Between late 1970 and June, 1972, Kearney allegedly ordered members of the Bureau's internal security division to commit burglaries, illegally open mail and tap telephones of several New York based left wing organizations...
...that her apparently mild-mannered and totally acceptant husband (we never meet him) has suddenly run amuck at the chemical factory where he has been employed for years. After learning that mass layoffs are going to cost him and hundreds of his mates their jobs, he kills a supervisor and then himself. The lesson that there are no such things as safe niches in the modern world is too bitter for him to absorb...