Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand jury is investigating an alleged Weatherman plot to purchase explosives in Tucson and transport them to California...
...five have continued to refuse to testify on the grounds that the questions violate their rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments, and on the grounds that the questions are vague and irrelevant to the grand jury's official purpose, to investigate the alleged plot to transport explosives...
...insists that he had "28 eyeball-to-eyeball commitments 24 hours before the vote," but that four Senators did not keep their pledges on the secret ballot. Suspicion centered mainly upon Washington's two Senators, Henry Jackson and Warren Magnuson, because Kennedy had opposed Seattle-based Boeing's supersonic transport; Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff. who has had past differences with the Kennedy brothers; and South Dakota's George McGovern, an announced presidential candidate, who is trying to appeal to the same kinds of voters that a Kennedy candidacy would probably attract...
...Perhaps prudently, Nixon in his State of the Union address did not men tion the supersonic transport. The last Senate voted against it, the new House seems to be leaning that way, and the plane may be permanently grounded...
What does one do when the buses he has ordered to transport a team 300 miles south for a game that afternoon arrive on time, not in Quincy Square as he has asked, but in Quincy, Mass...