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...BOSTON AREA Friends of Bluegrass and Old-Time Country Music apparently thought that not enough people knew about Doc Watson to warrant selling tickets in advance of the concert. One can hardly blame them for wanting to keep him to themselves. Still, a long line was left outside when Sanders Theater was filled, and those inside saw what more are fast discovering-that Doc Watson and his son Merle, from Deep Gap. North Carolina, play some of the most skillful and exciting authentic bluegrass and country music around...
...served two hitches in Viet Nam as a demolition expert and pilot and won both the Army Commendation Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross. A warrant officer in the Utah National Guard, McCoy showed up for a scheduled training stint only hours after parachuting from the United plane in a risky night maneuver. Fellow Guardsman Van leperen said McCoy had given no indication at the Guard session that anything was amiss. "Richard's my best friend," he added in disbelief. "He's one of the finest people I know." McCoy's well-publicized hijacking quickly triggered others...
...have over their use. Many who worry about informers and police power would like to see more, not less, of such judicial control. Aryeh Neier, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, thinks that the use of police informants should be permitted only after a judge issues a warrant. Others, like Illinois Attorney Joseph R. Lundy writing in The Nation, focus their objection narrowly on political investigations. They would require a warrant authorizing the use of informers when First Amendment free speech rights are involved...
Under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, only the Attorney General or a "specially designated" Assistant Attorney General has the power to authorize federal investigators to seek a court warrant for wiretapping. The law deliberately limited authorization of wiretaps in order to allay fears of widespread, unchecked surveillance. In the Nixon Administration, only Mitchell was legally empowered to authorize wiretaps. He did not delegate that authority to an Assistant Attorney General permitted, under the law, to act in his behalf...
Steiner explained yesterday that although Harvard police are deputized--and can therefore make arrests--there was no precedent for a Harvard policeman to serve a warrant...