FBI kept pressure on Dr. King in 1969 campaign
Senate findings show the FBI plotted to defame Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King a year after his assassination. Hoover rejected counterintelligence against Coretta yet approved a plan to sway Congress from declaring King's birthday a national holiday. A March 1969 memo urged briefing lawmakers to label King a scoundrel. Congress had not voted on the holiday bill.
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Suspects held in AIM shooting near Wagner reservation
FBI charged Michael Weston and James Weddell with attempted murder after an early Wednesday shooting on a Wagner South Carolina reservation left AIM leader Russell Means and John Thomas wounded. Three others, Gerald Black Elk Terry Provost and a juvenile, were charged as accessories and held in Sioux City Iowa.
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Nobel Prize Honors Ernest Lawrence for Cyclotron Work
American scientist Ernest Orlando Lawrence received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the cyclotron and his pioneering research using the device.
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Cyclamate ruling awaited by FDA amid industry hopes
FDA weighs an Abbott Laboratories bid to lift the 1969 cyclamate ban, likely restricting use to tabletop sweetener as concerns about Down syndrome chromosomal damage and other effects linger. An Abbott petition and internal memos led to cautious industry expectations while FDA considers cancer panel findings.
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Ford advisers jittery about first ballot bid and Michigan risk
Washington AP report says Ford’s political team grows more pessimistic about securing 1130 votes at the GOP National Convention and notes concern he could lose Michigan in the May primary. Reagan leads in delegates with 360 to Ford’s 292, with 329 uncommitted and 1278 to be chosen.
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