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...occurred before Hoover's death in May 1972, but many took place under Acting Director L. Patrick Gray, who resigned in disgrace during the Watergate scandal. Gray refused to comment, but Malone has acknowledged that the list "could have been" in his safe. Some FBI officials suspect that Gray was pressured by the Nixon White House to approve the use of bag jobs. As one agent explained the rationale: "These Weathermen were bomb throwers. The pressure was on to do something about them. The agents were acting to protect the country." Field agents insisted that records of the approved...
...with consider able grace and intelligence on the equally treacherous subject of American politics (Choosing Our King). For sports' new and embarrassing lovers are not so much wrong as excessive. The shrill use of "joy" and "fun" and "pleasure" in the titles and texts comes to sound as suspect as "honest" in the name of a used-car dealer. Jock Lit authors are so deadly serious they kill the fun. Yet they are not serious enough. To suggest, as Novak does, that sports may lie at the heart of America's spiritual regeneration is to overrate sports...
Although the city has yet to file its suit, Mayor Hofheinz is scouting for a company willing to do the drilling on a "public interest basis" and turn over all royalties to the city as a charitable contribution. So far he has had no takers, and many oilmen suspect that the whole incident is a bit of political grandstanding by the mayor, and that no drilling will ever be done. As a Brownco lawyer tartly puts it: "Anyone who turns down a 35% royalty offer is going to be suspect in the oil industry of having some mental difficulty...
...list of people who won't receive honoraries grows longer by the minute. There doesn't seem to be any reason to suspect that departing administrators Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, or Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, will garner honoraries...
...well-directed campaign from abroad aimed at undermining the prestige of the new authorities and hindering the process of national reorganization." Harguindeguy was referring to what he called "false" charges-mainly in the European press -that Argentina has failed to protect political refugees; many of his fellow officers suspect that the murders are the work of right-wing Peronist death squads trying to discredit the Videla government...