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Kelly agreed that he had stuffed the money into his pockets, all right, explaining: "Ten thousand dollars in new hundred-dollar bills is little more than a half-inch thick." He said he put all of the cash, $25,000, into the glove compartment of his car. Then he placed it in a file cabinet in his office and spent $174 for small purchases like lunches. Finally, he gave all the rest back to the FBI. But why had he taken the money in the first place? The Congressman said he had done so as part of his own "investigation...
Nothing like it had ever happened before in an American prison. Inmates battered gaping holes through 6-in. reinforced concrete walls. They burned open inch-thick steel doors with acetylene torches. They destroyed toilets, sinks, desks, file cabinets, beds-almost every stick of furniture that could be found. Little remained in several buildings but smoldering ashes and blood and bits and pieces of what had been human beings. Some corpses were missing arms and legs; one lacked a head. Another had an iron bar through its skull from ear to ear. Still another corpse hung from a cell block ceiling...
...when two guards discovered two inmates in Dormitory E-2 drinking hooch they had brewed from fermented fruit. The drunken prisoners overpowered the guards and stormed down the corridor to the control center, a cluster of rooms in the middle of the prison. The inmates shattered 1½-in.-thick windows with clubs and, once inside, flicked open many of the switches that control the locks in the prison's ten dormitories and cell blocks...
...relations between rich and poor nations. With a barrage of chilling statistics and often eloquent prose, the 1971 Nobel Peace prizewinner proposes a summit of some 25 world leaders to focus on "mutual interests in the field of peace, justice and jobs." While charging that the "air is thick with alibis for inaction," he says that nothing less than a summit will concentrate world attention on the "mortal dangers threatening our children and grandchildren...
...tertiary and heavy oil: The easiest treatment will go to petroleum that was not discovered before 1978, as well as to oil that either is so thick as to have limited value or is impossible to get out of the ground without major investments in so-called enhanced recovery techniques. There will be a 30% tax rate, on a base of $16.55, for large and small producers alike...