Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agent in the bureau's 69-year history was returned by a New York City grand jury. John J. Kearney, 55, a retired FBI special-unit supervisor, was named on five counts of illegal wiretapping, conspiracy and intercepting mail in the course of a futile hunt for Weather Underground terrorists between 1970 and 1972. Additional indictments of FBI officials, possibly reaching as high as the assistant director level, are expected soon. The message: Violations of the law, even in the name of law enforcement, are no longer to be automatically tolerated among federal agents...
...obtained mailbox keys and opened the letters at FBI headquarters in Manhattan with a "steamer"-a device that allows resealing without evidence of tampering. Agents also tapped phones of numerous eavesdropping targets without obtaining required court permission. Despite those efforts, they failed to turn up Bernardine Dohrn or other Weather Underground fugitives accused of complicity in various protest bombing attacks...
...course, inflation is unsafe at any speed above 4% or 5%. The latest rise was mostly due to a weather-induced leap in food prices, and economists in and out of Government tend to concur with Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, that "in two or three months, the food problem will be completely played...
...many supporters of free trade tend to be fair-weather friends. When the economic climate is sunny, nations are delighted to trade as much as possible with one another. But when a recession chill sets in, they hunker down and try to protect themselves from their neighbors' goods. That is what happened as a result of the severe 1973-75 recession; trading barriers were partially rebuilt, and they are beginning to have a permanent look. The world could become much more protectionist, especially if the U.S. goes along with the trend...
...fishing expedition to an unnamed lake, miles from the nearest road, in dubious weather. It sounded unsafe, if not foolhardy. But then, reports Senior Writer Michael Demarest...