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...verge of a civil war and we must prevent ..." Salvador Allende Gossens managed to warn his audience on nationwide television last week before the lights flickered twice and the screen went dead. Saboteurs had blown up the tower supporting a main electric circuit in Santiago, leaving the Chilean President without a live camera and 60% of the population in the dark. An hour later, thanks to some fast splicing, Allende was back on the air, his voice strained, blaming right-wing elements for this latest terrorist...
...Firestone, two giants of the rubber industry, get rid of enough operations to make the tire business as competitive as it was in 1959-when Goodyear accounted for 23% of sales, against 28% now, and Firestone's share was 15%, v. a current 25%. Justice Department lawyers warn that the companies will not be able to do that merely by disposing of other concerns that they have acquired since 1959; they will have to shuck off other parts of their businesses...
...seems that Alfred Baldwin was stationed in the Howard Johnson's motel across from the Watergate on the night of June 17, 1972. His assignment was to watch the building closely and warn the bunglars inside--via walkie-talkie--if he saw any policemen approaching...
Self-taping and self-bugging is not a crime, although recording a telephone conversation without using a beeper to warn the unsuspecting party at the other end is a violation of Federal Communications Commission tariff regulations. The penalty normally is a warning from the telephone company to stop any secret taping or risk the loss of its telephone service. The FCC ordered AT&T to check into the Nixon telephone-taping practice. An official...
...nerve gas kills so swiftly that inspectors carry live rabbits to warn them (by dying) of any leaks. In 1968, the Army had promised to move or "demilitarize," i.e., to detoxify and destroy, a certain portion of its deadly chemicals. In 1971, it started shipping nerve-gas shells by rail to the East Coast, where they were hauled out into the Atlantic and dumped...