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...These three broke our back," McCurdy said last night. "Northeastern didn't really assume command until the last mile, but that triple really hurt...
...downtown Washington. The White House informed the Church committee, which this week will hold public hearings on the matter. Church hopes to discover whether the toxins were ever used in CIA assassination plots. He is even more concerned with the fact that the agency violated Nixon's command. The episode, he said, points up a "looseness of command and control within the CIA." According to a source close to Church's panel, some low-ranking CIA official unknown to the agency's chiefs had made the decision to retain small quantities of the toxins...
Wind of the incident wafted back to his superiors in Norfolk, and Stevenson was relieved of his command "for cause." His kiss on Cat's cheek, said the Navy brass, "tended to demean the position" he held. Stevenson had even, huffed the Navy, taken up a collection for the dancer from the crew, and "that was in bad taste...
After Manson's arrest in 1969, Squeaky took command of the clan and its hand-to-mouth living arrangements. With a handful of other followers, mostly women, she perched on the steps of the Los Angeles courthouse during the trial, shaved her head to protest his conviction and gouged an X into her forehead as a sign of loyalty. She later explained: "We have Xed ourselves out of this world." Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote in his book Helter Skelter that the mutilations became a ritual for new members, "complete to tasting the blood as it ran down their faces...
...proposal, an Emergency Financial Control Board will be set up to supervise the city finances and try to make outgo match income. The board will consist of Carey, Mayor Abraham Beame, the state and city controllers, and a fifth member appointed by the Governor. Obviously, Carey will take command. The board will stay in existence until the city's accumulated deficit is wiped out, a date that nobody can predict...