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...file also contains a few shockers. One of the newly released FBI memoranda from 1955 contains allegations that Sinatra, the future Ronald Reagan confidante, was a member of the Communist Party. According to another, the singer tried to bribe his way out of the draft, and claimed he was neurotic in his psychiatric evaluation...
...documents," Stephen Jones said of the newspaper editors during a news conference Monday. "They knew or should have known they had no authorized release from Tim McVeigh, Judge Matsch or myself." Jones said his weekend investigation into the matter showed that Morning News lawyers obtained about 25,000 FBI memoranda and interviews with witnesses and hundreds of documents for McVeigh and co-defendant Terry Nichols by breaking into the defense's computer files. For its part, the Morning News stood by its story and maintains that it has nothing to retract. "We did not break any laws," News attorney Paul...
...executed, to be used as guinea pigs in "Nazi-style" medical experiments. Such suggestions have often been raised but rarely credited. Corso had tried to give his account to the Senate in 1992, but got nowhere. Last week, backed by newly declassified intelligence reports, memoranda and other documents from the top levels of the Eisenhower Administration, he laid it out for a House National Security subcommittee. More than 1,000 men had been left behind, he said, and this time there were only a few doubters...
...troops to desegregate a Little Rock, Arkansas, high school in 1957. But in fact, very few of Clinton's recent actions are formal Executive Orders. He doesn't issue them any more frequently than George Bush did. Instead, Clinton's tools of choice are known as "presidential directives" and "memoranda to agencies." A President's way of telling his bureaucrats what to do, they carry less weight than Executive Orders tend to. (The White House doesn't mind it, however, when the papers use the more stirring term.) At other times the President simply chooses to announce (and thus grab...
...University Attorney Richard J. Riley's claim that the HUPD officers did nothing inappropriate during their early morning raid of my client's suite and that "nothing was seized that they were not entitled to seize"--this is a documentable, outright lie. The HUPD are still holding--unlawfully--memoranda and correspondence exchanged between my client and me. Attorney Riley should apologize for lying so blatantly to The Crimson. --Harvey A. Silverglate