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Groups in these neighborhoods have expressed the concern that a development of the magnitude of the JFK Library will trigger other speculation for land for supporting uses (motels, etc.) which will cause the price of land to increase so that real estate is beyond the reach of low and middle-income residents. This increase in land values will also have the effect of pushing rents higher...
...explain such strange happenings, Berlitz cites a number of imaginative possibilities: that missing craft may have been whisked off by flying saucers or sucked in by "magnetic vortices" that are linked with "a different point in time and space." He also suggests that passing planes and ships may trigger powerful energy sources produced long ago by an ancient civilization that sank to the bottom of the sea. (Berlitz has also written a book about Atlantis, the lost civilization.) These ancient machines then cause the destruction-Berlitz does not explain how-of the unwary craft. He also cites another theory...
...court directed him to do so. Sirhan's attorney has been preparing an appeal for two months, and plans to file it soon. Skeptics have long been troubled by the fact that Sirhan's trial dwelt on his motives and mental state when he pulled the trigger and not on the other evidence. But unless a new inquiry turns up facts more convincing than those that have inspired the current renaissance of doubt, Sirhan will probably retain the grim distinction of being the sole assassin of Robert Kennedy...
...Trigger Mind. Back on the stand the next day, Ehrlichman was composed as Neal fired questions, but his answers were often evasive or damaging. He grudgingly admitted that he had known as early as July 1972 that cash was being dropped for the Watergate burglars in phone booths-although he had testified only the day before that he had only discovered this from Senate Watergate testimony. As the you-wanted-to-get-the-truth-out litany proceeded, Ehrlichman had to admit he had not even told Nixon of his early awareness of the cash payments, had not told...
...take a chance and tell them anyway?" As Neal pounced on the contradictions in Ehrlichman's testimony, two of the normally impassive jurors smiled, apparently in appreciation of Neal's pinpointed attack. At one point, Sirica cautioned: "Mr. Neal, slow down. Your mind is working like a trigger...