Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...David Hilliard. Last February, 4½ months into the Hell's Angels affair, the judge collapsed from exhaustion. Court was recessed as he rested up for two weeks. The prosecution's "Hell's Angels Task Force" sits at a center table: four lawyers and a shifting group of federal agents. Their manner suggests they are not always of one mind. The jury includes 16 citizens of varied colors, classes, sexes and ages, each clinging to a black binder notebook containing identifying pictures of the 18 defendants. Facing them sit the defendants with their lawyers in three tiers...
Within 48 hours, though, the West German Olympic Committee, after four hours of heated nationally televised debate, voted 59 to 40 to keep German athletes out of Moscow. Committee Chairman Willi Daume grumbled that "a nonpolitical group has been forced to make a political decision," and he was right. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had made it clear in dozens of public statements how the Bonn government wanted the vote to turn out. Moreover, polls showed that about 80% of West Germans backed the boycott, while polls in France showed 70% opposed...
Elizabeth M. Einaudi '83, a founder of Students Organized for Security (SOS), said the group is "proud of the job the FDO has done in keeping freshmen aware of attacks on students...
...faculty up for tenure. The physics department received the most extensive surveillance. Fairfield reported. The FBI approached Henry Margenau, a professor in the Physics Department and now Higgins Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus at Yale, to reproach him for speaking before the New Haven Youth Movement, a group with supposedly leftist leanings, Fairfield claimed. He noted that Margenau later nervously checked with the FBI every time he gave a speech before an unknown group...
...ever took place, Margenau now says, "I was visited by an FBI agent on several occasions--once or twice a year for several years--then nothing." He recalls the speech before the New Haven Youth Movement and confirms that "the FBI admonished me for speaking" to a group with "red tinge." He adds that he "probably" did inform the FBI of subsequent offers to lecture when he didn't know the political orientation of the audience. Margenau says he is still puzzled over the FBI's excessive interests in his speechmaking plans. "I thought it was very strange" when...