Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their reports expose the futility of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925. Designed to limit campaign expenses, the act has never been enforced, and contains so many loopholes that congressional candidates, in effect, often ignore it. Senatorial campaigns can cost more than $1,000,000, yet the law requires a candidate to report only those expenses of which he has personal knowledge; thus many campaign committees purposely never show their man the books. The law also has a convenient provision that allows the committees to make no federal report at all if they exist in only a single state...
...Lafitte loyally claims U.S. birth. He says that he was born to the madam of a bawdy house in Louisiana's Cajun country. His mother, he relates, took him to France, abandoned him and left him to be raised by friends. He denies a French police report that he was arrested in 1921 and claims that the authorities picked up a relative whose name he just happened to be using at the time. A matter of record that he does not deny is his enlistment in the French Foreign Legion-and his desertion a few months later...
Greece's departure from the body was another blot on the record of the military junta that seized power 32 months ago. It undoubtedly reflected the revulsion among Greece's neighbors against widespread reports that political prisoners have been tortured by police with official approval. Council members had recently received the report of a special panel of the Human Rights Commission documenting at least eleven cases of torture (TIME...
...winter night in 1948, two weeks after the Communists had seized power in Czechoslovakia, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk fell to his death from his third-floor apartment in the Cernín Palace. Despite an official report that he had committed suicide, many Czechoslovaks believed he had been murdered by Soviet secret police. During Alexander Dubček's short-lived regime in 1968, a new inquest was ordered into Masaryk's death. Then came the Soviet invasion. Last week the new report was finally released, and it proved to be a tortured compromise between the Soviet position...
...report said Masaryk had a habit of sitting in cold places to cure his insomnia. He also had a way, it said, of sitting cross-legged in yoga fashion. The "remarkable connection" of these two habits, it concluded, probably led to his death in "an unfortunate accident...