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...were quickly reviewed by officials at the department's highest levels to see if the tactics used by the actor-agents in the field were proper. Moreover, each actual cash payoff was witnessed by a Justice Department attorney, who sat in an adjoining room and watched a closed-circuit TV monitor. In some instances, the attorney would telephone one of the agents serving the sheik, if the bribe suggestions were getting too bold. The agent picking up the telephone would be advised to ease the pitch...
Richard Kelly, a third-term G.O.P. Congressman from Florida, was once a state circuit judge who was impeached by the state's house for harassing lawyers and fellow judges (the senate subsequently dismissed the charges). Later ordered by the Florida judicial qualifications commission to undergo psychiatric examination, Kelly visited a hospital on his own and earned a clean bill of health. That enabled him, on entering the House in 1975, to claim: "I'm the only member certified to be sane...
Jane Beal, press secretary in Kennedy's Boston campaign headquarters, said yesterday the senator will address the public for about 45 minutes in the Forum. The speech will be shown simultaneously on closed circuit television in Sanders Theater...
CINDY NELSON. She is 23 now, and it has been nearly a decade since she burst on the skiing scene. At 15, a native of Lutsen, Minn., she was the top U.S. woman downhiller, tuning up for the Sapporo Olympics with startling performances on the World Cup circuit. Then, less than a month before the Games opened, she took a dreadful fall on Switzerland's treacherous Grindelwald course and was laid up for months with a dislocated hip. She won the bronze in the '76 Olympics in the downhill. This is her last Olympics, and to win a gold...
Stenmark joined the European racing circuit in 1974, when he was 17. The following year he blossomed. He was the World Cup leader in the slalom and giant slalom, and was in contention for the combined championship (slalom, giant slalom and downhill) until the final day of the season at Val Gardena, Italy, when he lost to Italian Gustavo Thoeni in a dramatic, head-to-head slalom. In 1976, he became the first Scandinavian to win the World Cup, and he was again champion...