Word: webs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close with a final reflection upon the Lockheed affair. What I have tried to describe to you is the way in which the Lockheed case illustrates a web of entanglement: a major U.S. defense contractor seeks its financial salvation in sales abroad; it penetrates and corrupts the internal politics of major allies of the United States; our own government admits that this fraudulent and corrosive behavior has taken place outside its knowledge and control; and, when a congressional committee proposes to expose the sordid facts and legislate to prevent their repetition, we are told that to do so would endanger...
...estimated 400,000 U.S. addicts. The arrests, reports TIME Correspondent Don Sider, "grew out of several years of usually dull, sometimes dangerous work that began to come together last May." Using information from undercover agents and pushers-turned-informers, the DEA began tracing in detail the distribution web. Early this month officials concluded that they knew enough about 57 distribution rings to try smashing them...
...Spider Weaves Its Web...
...Web Begins to Tear...
...successful Affirmative Action struggle was mass support. To be sure, this is not to discount legal work, but as can be seen from the experience of others using Affirmative Action, the law is truly the web of the rich and powerful. If democratic forces rely solely on the law, they will be held in court for months, if not years. Thus, base-building, mass action and educational work were seen as decisive...