Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside California for the purpose of planning a riot or demonstration. Several questions concerned the demonstrations which occurred at the University of California at Los Angeles following the sentencing of the Chicago 7. The Grand Jury is officially investigating an alleged Weathermen plot to purchase explosives in Tucson and transport them to California. But none of the questions Volpin was asked had any direct relation to such a plot...
...visit to Phnom-Penh by Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Moorer concluded that the situation was deteriorating, though not really critical. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who was in Viet Nam for a three-day visit, rejected a proposal to send U.S. transport helicopters to the Elephant Mountains, but he did not rule out such missions in the future...
...Harrisburg. Pa., grand jury indicted Berrigan and five others for conspiring to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger, Presidential assistant on foreign affairs, and transport him in interstate commerce; conspiring to maliciously destroy U. S. property, specifically, heating systems in buildings in the capital; conspiring to possess dynamite, plastic explosives and detonating cord without registering them under Federal law; and conspiring to transport these explosives in interstate commerce for the purpose of destroying property...
...five were cited for contempt late last year when they refused to answer questions put to them at Federal grand jury hearings in Tucson, Arizona. The grand jury was convened ostensibly for the purpose of investigating an alleged Weatherman plot to purchase dynamite in Tucson and transport it to California...
...Government's predilection to do as much as possible in secrecy also affects domestic issues of fairly direct concern to the taxpayer. Environmentalists opposed to development of the SST, for example, have had difficulty gaining access to the so-called Garwin report, which is critical of the supersonic transport; the Justice Department claims that the report is a "presidential document" and thus not subject to forced release. Preparation of a national inventory on industrial wastes discharged into public waterways was blocked for seven years by the Budget Bureau under terms of a 1942 law designed to protect business from...