Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence against Negri was locked behind judicial secrecy, but officials mentioned that a draft of instructions to Brigatisti that was found in Milan, as well as notes about the Moro operation discovered in a Rome hideaway, was thought to be in Negri's handwriting. Also, experts tentatively identified Negri's voice in the tape of a kidnaper's phone call to Moro's wife. Negri has denied any operational connection between Autonomia Operaia and the Red Brigades, and any involvement in the kidnaping...
...accusing oilmen of trying to subvert Congress against the will of the people. In fact, Congress was never as opposed to the windfall tax as people had at first thought, and some form of tax seems almost certain to pass...
These harsh realities are every bit as troubling to oilmen as to anybody else. They chafe at charges that they belong to some sort of seamless monolith, and they are bewildered by the public's suspicions. The dismay is understandable. Hardly the conspiratorial business that it is widely thought to be, the 1.8 million-employee industry operates in an intensely competitive arena...
...working for the CIA. Others have been targets of whispered charges of debauchery and homosexuality. Last summer the New York Times's Craig Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold Piper were tried for "slander and defamation" for quoting a dissident's family as saying they thought his televised confession looked fake. After the reporters refused to publish retractions, they were each fined $72.50 plus court costs...
Newspaper editors once printed what they thought their readers should know, which subscribers out of their obligation as citizens dutifully read. At least that used to be the theory. It is no longer. Worrying over the declining readership of newspapers, particularly among the young, the American Society of Newspaper Editors has been polling and studying what readers-and non-readers-think of newspapers. The result comes as a shock...