Notes in the News
Notes in the News Lying about Laos In a policy statement on American military activity in Laos, President Nixon declared on March 6, 1970: "We will continue to give the American people the fullest...
...Today the Meany clique still controls much of the labor movement...
...Then the CIA came along to spoil the show...
...For all its promise, the new law is not doing the job...
...Reducing Arms Costs Cutting $90 billion from Pentagon budgets over the next ten years would provide the funds to help meet a number of the country's most urgent peacetime needs—and experts are convinced it can be done without endangering U.S...
...The chiefs of all three police departments were shown the survey figures...
...Inspectors' powers to close unsafe mines were broadened...
...These systems of internal review fail, a Yale University sociologist said recently, because of personal loyalties and pressures found within police departments...
...Meany and his lieutenants are virtually unremovable...
...But the difficulty was compounded when the White House, after waiting thirteen months, accepted the pro forma resignation of Democrat John F. O'Leary as Bureau director just as the law was to take effect last year...
...Two investigators of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations who visited Laos in mid-May returned with the news that the Central Intelligence Agency is covertly financing some 4,800 Thai troops fighting in northern Laos —an expenditure that has never been disclosed to the public or submitted to Congress for its approval...
...With inflation still unchecked and unemployment climbing—it rose to 6.2 per cent in May and some economists predict it will reach seven per, cent before leveling off—the plight of the poor and even of the middle class is likely to deteriorate further in the months to come...
...Fast as Molasses The phrase "quick as a flash" should cause pain in the Pentagon now that a House Armed Services subcommittee has revealed that the Defense Department spends an average of an hour and forty minutes sending a message stamped "immediate" and takes sixty-nine minutes to send a "flash...
...He added these examples of "omissions and evasions": % When the Laotian village of Long Chen—which serves as a CIA and U.S...
...But a message marked "critical" arrived in ten minutes...
...If, as the ultimate revolt against modern U.S...
...Yet production increased by some twenty-five million tons as the dubious new "energy crisis" lifted demand and coal prices to new highs...
...I'd rather believe I got this job because of my record of community and church leadership...
...Generally, his superior officers and boards made up of police department officials...
...There are some 9,400 villages in Laos, and it looks to me like we may have destroyed thousands of them," McCloskey reported on his return...
...the B-l would be only "marginally superior...
...They merely assure, for example, that a shipbuilder won't be paid for radars on a vessel until he has laid down the keel...
...Kistiakowsky believes that both nuclear superpowers should rely on missile-firing submarines to preserve the nuclear balance of power...
...In fact, no one knows precisely how many such products are on the market...
...But he has not turned labor's power loose, Fritchey rightly noted, in "all-out support for the Emergency Employment Act now before Congress which is designed to put hundreds of thousands to work...
...In an engagement in which sixty-four out of 110 participating soldiers die, casualties are described as "light...
...offensive missiles with multiple warheads, and canceling Air Force plans to build a new fleet of manned bombers and a new defense network against Soviet bombers...
...A rating of "probably effective" was given to twenty-seven per cent, and forty-seven per cent were found "possibly effective...
...Since December 30, 1969, the day President Nixon signed the bill into law with a warning that it might produce administrative problems, the White House has said not a word publicly about mine safety...
...An unnamed "senior official" recently told The New York Times that unless arms shipments to the Latin American countries are increased, the United States will "lose influence with the Latin military...
...By mid-May Administration officials were telling the press that the Russians were making such rapid progress with their new offensive system that test firings could be expected by the summer...
...Yet there is little the ordinary worker can do about it...
...The B-52s could be employed until the early 1980s, he said...
...But he could not take the political heat for too long...
...He did not specify what this "influence" was worth to the peoples subjugated by military dictatorships or, for that matter, to the people of the United States...
...Over the strenuous objections of the U.S...
...Before the attack four messages were sent from Washington to the U.S...
...In a recent dispatch to the Washington Evening Star from Vientiane,- correspondent Tammy Arbuckle reported that the U.S...
...He pointed out that the American Polaris-Poseidon fleet of missile-firing craft is virtually invulnerable today...
...Gillette markets "The Dry Look," a spray that leaves the hair looking un-sprayed...
...planes, an American spokesman "gave an account of damage by North Vietnamese artillery...
...The FDA has no authority to investigate drugs marketed before 1938...
...No, that head has been sprayed with a $1.50 can of ungreasy stuff that's guaranteed to leave hair looking like nothing has been put on it...
...Do policemen need policing...
...and Washington 13.8...
...The President views the impounded money as a bargaining chip, with Congressional approval of major Administration proposals, such as revenue sharing, as his price for releasing a substantial slice of the money...
...According to the intelligence agency's analysis," The Times reported, "the large holes can be explained as an effort to 'harden' the silos, by emplacement of a concrete shell around them, to protect the weapons against the blast effects of a nuclear explosion...
...Instead, he conducted his own investigation, including interviews with Laotian refugees, and discovered that despite repeated official denials, U.S...
...Representative Robert H. Mollohan, West Virginia Democrat and subcommittee chairman, said its members were worried about "what could be expected from Department of Defense communications generally, and the Defense Communications System specifically, in a general war situation...
...Vitalis advertises its "Dry Control" as "the supernatural for natural hair...
...What the President chose to call "the fullest possible information" has turned out to be a steady stream of deliberate falsehoods issued by American officials in Vientiane and Washington...
...To allocate it to the poor would by no means solve all of the nation's domestic problems, but it would be a start—a start that could be made whenever Congress and the Administration decide to do something (besides talk) about America's bizarre scheme of national priorities...
...One unnamed chief said that all the erring policemen "ought to be fired" —not for their crimes and violations, the chief told Reiss, but for having committed them in an outsider's presence...
...But they thought the student observers were interested in "the public's reaction to the police rather than the police reaction to the public...
...embassy, the Congressman obtained and publicized a U.S...
...Predictably, the heaviest price has been paid by black Americans...
...The gap had assumed alarming proportions by April 22, when Laird told members of the American Newspaper Publishers Association of fresh intelligence "confirming the sobering fact that the Soviet Union is involved in a new—and apparently extensive—ICBM construction program...
...officials have in mind, for the facts of what is happening in Laos—as elsewhere in Indochina—will not bear the light of public scrutiny...
...The job eventually went to Elburt F. Osborn, a Pennsylvania State University vice president for research who had little knowledge of coal and even less grasp of health and safety needs...
...You certainly wouldn't put greasy kid stuff on after that...
...The New Frontiersmen shoveled Treasury funds out through such windows as the Commerce Department (accelerated public works) and the Veterans Administration (accelerated dividend payments) in an effort to bring unemployment rates down...
...The closest the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Charles C. Edwards, could come in recent testimony before the Senate Monopoly Subcommittee was to estimate that there are between 100,000 and 200,000 over-the-counter drugs, and that they are all "formulated from some 250 significant active ingredients designed to alleviate about thirty easily recognizable symptoms...
...They are doing this because of their unquestioning belief in their right to run the Government as they see fit...
...Thirteen hours elapsed before the ship was attacked...
...One might surmise that China and the Soviet Union were moving into the Latin arms trade—but, in fact, the principal suppliers in recent years have been Britain, France, Canada, Italy, West Germany, and Spain...
...Elements of the counterculture are being synthesized, homogenized, and merchandised in the little shop around the corner and the supermarket chain across the country...
...When he wants to cut spending, that is where he goes...
...Torpor in the AFL-CIO Over the years George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, has contributed the last full measure of his devotion to the war in Indochina...
...nominee Richard J. Lucas finally withdrew his name when it was learned he held mining stocks and moonlighted for the coal industry...
...This evidence of less than blinding speed was reported by the subcommittee after it had looked into operations of the multibillion-dollar Defense Communications System...
...The tradition is for the leader to die on the job...
...Both are warring against anti-war protesters to the neglect of some of the country's urgent problems...
...Information Service survey of more than 200 refugees in the Plaine des Jarres area in northern Laos...
...Policing the Police Who polices the policeman...
...Missile Mystery The Pentagon's credibility may finally have hit rock bottom...
...The snail's pace progress toward meeting the nation's most^pressing needs that was achieved in the Kennedy and Johnson years has not only been halted but reversed...
...If it will rise to the formidable challenge of trying to keep the Pentagon honest, we are prepared to overlook a multitude of sins...
...For the first time, fines were prescribed for violators...
...In a world that last year spent $204 billion on arms—"an intolerable waste of resources" that should have gone, as U.N...
...Accepts money from business"—Chicago 8.6...
...On Russell's orders, the Interior Department did not even fight the suit...
...Day-to-day operation of the Bureau fell to Undersecretary Fred J. Russell, a since-departed GOP money man...
...The Census Bureau's study of consumer income showed a poverty population of 25.5 million in 1970, an increase of 1.2 million—five per cent— over 1969...
...Earlier mine safety laws were tokens, effectively gutted by the powerful coal industry...
...Last year, for the first time in a decade, the number of Americans living in poverty increased...
...Advertising of over-the-counter drugs is "one of the most urgent issues," Edwards said, and testimony from a Federal Trade Commission economist seemed to bear this out...
...In other words, the Russians, rather than expanding their own first-strike capability, were protecting their missiles against the danger of an American first strike...
...Frozen Assets President Nixon refuses to spend about $12.8 billion appropriated by Congress...
...Reiss said that in all instances the policemen knew they were being watched...
...The "flash" took thirty-eight minutes to reach the National Military Command Center in Washington...
...In fact, there was a slight decline, as measured in constant dollars, from $9,990 in 1969 to $9,867 in 1970...
...McCloskey visited Laos in April and refused to accept on faith the pap peddled by U.S...
...President Kennedy had impoundment troubles with Congress because he consistently blocked plans to bloat the Pentagon budget beyond already ample levels...
...Just prior to joining the Bureau, Failor was running GOP Congressional campaigns (all were losers) and teaching neophyte fund-raisers how to put the campaign bite on industry fat cats...
...f Criminal violations by police included "assault on citizen—excessive use of force," engaged in by 7.3 per cent of Chicago policemen observed...
...Marvin Goldberger, chairman of Princeton University's physics department, said of the Air Force plan to replace its B-52s with a fleet of new B-l bombers that "there is no reason other than nostalgia to embark on this at this time...
...From the start, the crux of the problem has been political...
...arms manufacturers, but it hardly constitutes a threat to "the security of the United States...
...arms will be used, as they have been used so often in the past, to stem the tide of economic and political reform...
...f The embassy spokesman, Andrew P. Guzowski, describes Americans killed on bombing raids, as casualties during "orientation missions...
...This is the relationship Mr...
...George B. Kistiakowsky, former science adviser to President Eisenhower, told the committee that with U.S...
...Failor is a former municipal judge from Dubuque, charter member of the Iowa Young Republican Hall of Fame, and lobbyist for the Iowa Association of Coin-Operated Laundries...
...To apply similar evaluations to all the drugs on the market would be an "obviously enormous task" for his agency, Edwards declared...
...In 1959, when the Census Bureau began compiling poverty statistics, Negroes accounted for twenty-eight per cent of the poor...
...And meanwhile, contradictory orders flooded the Bureau's field offices...
...For example, with incredible speed and inventiveness, our entrepreneurs have expanded the market for hippie fashions...
...The new law gave the Bureau a policeman's role that it was either unprepared, unwilling, or unable to accept—maybe all three...
...The troubled times that lie ahead for the southern portion of the hemisphere will be bad enough without the intrusion of new instruments of repression labeled "made in the United States...
...Among 147 Boston and 230 Washington police, the violation figures were 26.6 and 20.8 per cent...
...Notes in the News Lying about Laos In a policy statement on American military activity in Laos, President Nixon declared on March 6, 1970: "We will continue to give the American people the fullest possible information on our involvement consistent with national security...
...Andrew J. Glass (Mr...
...unemployed...
...What is not said is that the Administration plans to impound fiscal 1972 appropriations should Congress again exceed the Nixon budget targets...
...Such Pentagon stalwarts as Senator Jackson and columnist Joseph Al-sop were well into their final preparations for Armageddon...
...As succinctly as any other fact, the Failor appointment tells the story of White House attitudes toward the safety and health of coal miners...
...The imitation hippie paid plenty for his Army "surplus" jacket at a "hip little boutique...
...Boston, 5.5...
...The Chicago and Washington percentages were 19.6 and 32.4...
...The Administration has refused to treat the health and safety of the coal miner as the pressing national problem it is...
...Four prominent scientists, representing the 2,000-member Federation of American Scientists, recently told the defense subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee that the Pentagon could effect the multibillion dollar savings by reducing the number of aircraft carriers now in operation from sixteen to nine, halting deployment of both the Safeguard ABM defense system and U.S...
...There are still some real hippies, but many who look like hippies are affluent youngsters imitating the counterculture—and paying dearly to do it...
...Foreign Relations Chairman J. W. Fulbright said his inquiries to the State Department on this matter had brought responses that were "incomplete and in certain respects inaccurate...
...That nomination turned out to be a Carswell and Haynsworth fiasco...
...The President's budget managers are impounding huge sums appropriated for hundreds of purposes, ranging from a milk program run by the Food and Nutrition Service in the Agriculture Department to work on neurological diseases and stroke by the National Institutes of Health...
...According to Census Bureau experts, it would cost about $11.4 billion to raise the incomes of the nation's 5.2 million poor families to the subsistence level...
...society, the counterculturists began to sally outdoors naked, it would be no time at all before American enterprise put a body spray on the market "that gives you that au naturel look but is scuff-resistant, weatherproof, and comes in six delicious colors —white, black, brown, red, yellow, and, like wild, man...
...A few days later Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird widened the gap a bit by telling a national television audience that observation of large new missile silos being dug in Russia "confirms the fact that the Soviet Union is going forward with construction of a large missile system...
...Later, Meany, along with Mr...
...They go on to charge that: • Congress sought to reorder national priorities in 1969 and 1970 by redrafting the Nixon budget, only to see this shift undermined through impoundments...
...As long as Mr...
...Principal reasons for the increase in poverty, according to Government analysts, are rising unemployment and underemployment, which makes it impossible even for those willing and able to work to earn a subsistence income, and inflation, which has a catastrophic impact on the incomes of pensioners, welfare recipients, and others living on fixed incomes...
...Most critically, it contributes substantially to the 'drug orientation' of our culture and we believe something should be done about it...
...Despite this admission, lying about Laos continues to be standard U.S...
...Now that the President has embraced Keynesian economics, critics argue plausibly that he cannot have it both ways...
...The sociologist, Albert Reiss, has uncovered overwhelming evidence that they do...
...Among topics which the embassy declines to discuss, Arbuckle wrote, are "opium dealing and the sales of U.S...
...The governors, then as now, were aroused...
...The tactics of suppressing information can only lead to a lack of understanding of the Laos situation," Arbuckle wrote...
...Positive evidence of efficacy was found for only fifteen per cent of the drugs, while eleven per cent were rated positively ineffective for the purposes claimed by the manufacturers...
...and the sandals, priced at $10, impart the appearance of utter destitution because they are faithful imitations of those made by impoverished South American Indians...
...While those hierarchs of labor who are led by Meany have supported the war in Southeast Asia year after year, the great majority of Americans have come to repudiate it, including a few of labor's leaders and much of the rank-and-file...
...security...
...Meanwhile, those "Support Your Local Police" bumper stickers might be revised to add the words, "and Watch Them...
...At best, additional weapons from the United States will touch off a new arms race in Latin America—a race that will place new and intolerable strains on pathetically inadequate economies...
...It attributed the rest of the delay to the decentralized nature of the communications operation, with responsibility for the management of DCS divided between the Defense Communications Agency and the military departments...
...Among the most heavily advertised products are Anacin, with an annual advertising budget of $24.6 million...
...So chaotic was the situation that the major enforcement tool —fines against operators—was not even used during 1970...
...The Subcommittee, headed by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin Democrat, has begun an intensive investigation of the promotion and merchandising of over-the-counter drugs...
...Alka-Seltzer, $18.9 million...
...One message marked "immediate" was delivered in one-and-three-quarter hours, the other in three hours...
...Sinclair, a Washington correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal, has covered most of the recent developments in the coal-mining industry...
...A Federal judge agreed and enjoined enforcement...
...Secretary of State William P. Rogers contends that stepped up military aid is "important to the security of the United States" and "diminishes the prospects of any powers unfriendly to the United States advancing their influence and objectives in this hemisphere...
...embassy suppresses news of Americans killed in action in Laos and "is willing to permit false information to be given the American public when it knows the information is false...
...operating procedure...
...Since 1967, Congress has annually imposed an all too generous "ceiling" of $75 million on U.S...
...A new penalty procedure approved by Russell before he left is of questionable legality and again has operators screaming "foul" and threatening lawsuits...
...Dristan, $14.4 million, and Bufferih, $13.8 million...
...Washington, 0.9...
...Air Force base, and which McCloskey was denied permission to visit —was mistakenly bombed by U.S...
...A spokesman for the American Pharmaceutical Association told the Nelson Subcommittee that advertising of over-the-counter drugs "has gotten completely out of control and has become a major public health problem...
...But its war policies have discredited it among the young and its race policies among the blacks...
...For more than seven months the Bureau remained without a director...
...In 1961, when a hawkish Congress added an extra $180 million to a $200 million request for the ill-fated B-70, Robert McNamara said no thanks...
...Part of the pattern of deception was recently exposed by Representative Paul N. McGloskey Jr., the California Republican who is courageously challenging the Administration's Indochina policies...
...Shakedown for money or property of deviants"—Chicago police 4.5 per cent...
...They couldn't go lower because any Administration must prudently withhold about $5 billion (give or take a billion dollars) in the pipeline...
...The defensive barrage from the White House has not dispelled the controversy because it is ludicrous to equate current Nixon policies with what occurred in previous Administrations...
...When so radical a question is raised by a trade association spokesman, how much longer can Congress wait to take remedial action...
...The reasons officially advanced for doubling the volume of arms shipments to the Latin American nations are patently absurd...
...Capitalists have co-opted other aspects of the counterculture too, from rock music records—All You've Got Is Money and / Don't Want Your Cadillac are big moneymakers—to organic or "natural" foods...
...Such impoundments have nothing to do with thwarting the will of Congress...
...The Yale sociologist suggested that a system of "outside police to police the local police" might be organized nationally by the Federal Government as an answer to police corruption...
...That amount—and several times that amount-—is available in the $75 billion squandered on America's bloated military machine...
...To turn a fast buck, or a million of them, the U.S...
...Slaughter in the Mines When Congress enacted a far-reaching coal mine health and safety law in 1969, America's coal miners had ample reason to believe that, finally, there would be an end to the awesome slaughter and maiming of men in the mines...
...arms aid to Latin America...
...f During the Israeli-Arab Six Day War in June, 1967, the communications ship Liberty was attacked by Israel...
...Airlifts of Thai soldiers in Laos are described as rice transports...
...They did little to stem the relentless toll of more than 100,000 lives (more than Vietnam and Korea combined) since 1900...
...The implication was obvious: the United States would have to do something about beefing up its own strategic weapons arsenal...
...Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley and his associates...
...Congressional anger over what is being done is genuine enough...
...Like Wild, Man That philosopher of the counterculture, Herbert Marcuse, has warned that American society can co-opt anything, even a repudiation of itself...
...It seems an odd way of returning power to the people...
...Such competition is undoubtedly unwelcome to U.S...
...supplies and weapons...
...Things have changed some since...
...Withheld funds are heavily laden with sums culled from Democratic programs which are mainly aimed at easing the fiscal plight of the big cities...
...No effective mechanism exists to regulate these preparations, evaluate their effectiveness, or even ascertain that they will not harm the user...
...We have now reached the point where a Nixonian Office of Management and Budget is systematically impounding appropriations as a means of imposing domestic policy...
...The larger hole is required to accommodate the concrete liners, according to the CIA analysis...
...The man left in charge of determining who will be fined and how much is lawyer Edward D. Failor, who was never in a coal mine until after an explosion killed thirty-eight Kentucky miners on the first anniversary of the signing of the new law...
...A long needed change of leadership holds out the only hope of making the labor movement once again a dynamic force for progressive action in a time of crisis...
...It is often erroneous, it exaggerates claims, and it even attempts to convince people that they have nonexistent diseases," said W. James Bick-et, a practicing pharmacist from Zion, Illinois...
...On the eve of a 1967 Governors' Conference, where Mr...
...The flattops might be used as a U.S...
...The subcommittee report said that the average of sixty-nine "processing" minutes for a "flash" included only five minutes for electrical transmission...
...More poverty is, in brief, the fruit of the Administration's celebrated "game plan" for the economy...
...Genuine hippies, in protest against the square fashions and practices of square society, have been identified by hair worn long and wild, ancient Levis, soiled T-shirts, tattered Army fatigue jackets, shoddy-looking sandals, and a general look of three rough nights spent on the Bowery...
...tracking station in South Korea sent two "immediate" messages to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington about North Korean planes pursuing an American reconnaissance plane, and a "flash" when the plane was shot down...
...But the Nixon team had better watch it...
...Two messages were misrouted to the Pacific, a retransmitted message accidentally went from the Pentagon to Fort Meade, Maryland, and the fourth was broadcast to the Liberty nine hours after the attack...
...The purpose of such secrecy and deception, Representative McCloskey has pointed out, is not to withhold information from the enemy, but "to conceal information from the people of the United States as if we were the enemy...
...Edwards, who has declared that rion-prescription drugs are often promoted "in ways to make a snake-oil salesman green with envy," reported on results of a recent evaluation of a representative sampling of 400 prod* ucts by the National Academy of Sciences...
...Johnson, made certain that Presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey hewed to the Administration line on the war—which turned out to be a major cause of the Democratic nominee's defeat...
...Secretary General U Thant maintains, to meet human needs—the United States and the Soviet Union must lead the way in reducing the crushing burden of armaments...
...Nixon intends to withhold the money well into fiscal 1972 (which begins July 1) when it will be released along with 1972 appropriations in an orgy of spending meant to shock the economy out of the doldrums and cut unemployment before the Presidential election...
...It is, to be sure, regarded as a potent pressure group, one that must be handled with some care...
...The AFL-CIO is torpid and antiquated at the top...
...Indeed, it is not being allowed to do the job the miners expected because of Nixon Administration politics and industry resistance that continues to put profits ahead of humaneness...
...businessman will exploit any development or fad that has a following or promises to have one...
...The results could not have been more predictable...
...If the Pentagon fails to shape up its communications system, there's always Western Union, and if that's too slow or on strike, there's the carrier pigeon, and the fast mail packet out of Baltimore Harbor, only forty-five miles from Washington...
...Meany has lobbied for the SST and a Government subsidy for the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, which involves a small number of jobs compared to the 5.4 million U.S...
...One major difficulty, he said, is that while manufacturers routinely advertise their drugs to the public as "new" and "improved," they insist to the FDA that the products are identical to those that have been sold for years and "generally regarded as safe...
...This year's statistics are even grimmer: production continues to rise but the first quarter death toll was ahead of the 1970 figure...
...The survey found that "bombing is clearly the most compelling reason for moving," and that seventy-five per cent of the refugees had reported bombing damage to their homes...
...Drugs on the Market Americans spend about a billion dollars a year on drugs and medications sold over the counter without a doctor's prescription...
...inspectors were confused, although one thing was perfectly clear—nobody in Washington was calling for strict enforcement or a get-tough attitude toward violators...
...In my judgment, it is difficult for a consumer to make an intelligent, discriminating self-medication choice under these circumstances...
...The word from the White House is that the money is not really impounded because much of it will be spent in fiscal 1972...
...Russell was bounced from the Department when Rogers C. B. Morton became Secretary of the Interior, but his melody lingers on...
...In the previous ten years the number of the poor had declined annually by about five per cent...
...f There were major weaknesses in Pentagon communications when the U.S...
...Leslie H. Gelb, a former acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for arms control, contended that the cut in Navy carrier task forces would save $3 billion to $4 billion a year...
...Early testimony indicates that the inquiry comes none too soon, and that it should be followed promptly by the enactment of stringent regulatory legislation...
...For the first time since 1961, there was no increase last year in the median family income, the key indicator of consumer prosperity...
...By the time President Johnson took office, impoundments had fallen to a residual base...
...f In Boston, a staggering 47.3 per cent of policemen in the study were observed breaking such departmental rules as drinking, sleeping on the job, neglecting duty, or falsifying reports...
...Nixon does not care for these programs...
...In the long and sordid history of U.S...
...Fifty years ago, the first director of the Budget Bureau, Charles G. Dawes, said that as much as he loved the President, he would willingly spread garbage on the steps of the Harding White House if Congress appropriated funds for that purpose...
...This official's reaction, Reiss said, illustrated a "police subculture...
...It is no secret that there is a growing impatience among the rank-and-file of labor over the failure of Meany and the other aging leaders of the AFL-CIO to mount anything resembling a strong or creative campaign against unemployment, which has just reached a new peak...
...Even the Central Intelligence Agency doesn't believe it any more...
...Glass is a contributing editor to National Journal in Washington...
...The Administration's first choice to succeed him was a Virginia professor, avidly promoted by small mine operators...
...Under the pressure of McCloskey's disclosures, American officials finally acknowledged to Congress in May what they have persistently denied for the past two years—that B-52 bombers, which bomb in saturation patterns and carry payloads of up to thirty tons, have been regularly used in raids on northern Laos, far from the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...It urged centralization of management "either in DC A or in a designated military department...
...Most of these products consist of several components to satisfy a range of afflictions, both real and imagined...
...Dust-control provisions were designed to wipe out the epidemic of black-lung disease that has crippled more than 100,000 men...
...He arranged for law and science students to ride with patrolmen policing high crime areas in Chicago, Boston, and Washington...
...Goal operators took the Bureau to court, claiming that regulations and penalty proposals were drawn up illegally...
...That, of course, is precisely what U.S...
...At worst, U.S...
...Three policemen in Chicago and three in Boston, but none in Washington, were observed stealing from burglarized establishments...
...President Nixon has asked Congress to raise this limit to $150 million starting in the new fiscal year...
...Both are seventy-six, an age at which their retirement is overdue...
...Fritchey pointed out some interesting resemblances between Meany and J. Edgar Hoover...
...show of force—in the Middle East, for example—but should not be relied on to survive in any actual conflict with the Soviets, Gelb said...
...little to prevent disabling injuries to some 1.5 million men in the last forty years...
...But in Mr...
...He failed to mention the air strike...
...The students found: fOf 220 Chicago policemen, 30.1 per cent violated laws...
...In that vacuum the coal operators and the Bureau's parent Department of the Interior—top heavy with former minerals industry employes and Republican Party worthies—had a picnic...
...While the average poor white family's income was about $1,000 below the Federal poverty line, the average black family's income was $1,300 below...
...planes had for many months been conducting massive bombing raids on villages in northern Laos...
...Bayer aspirin, $22 million...
...The DCS was cited particularly for its poor performance in three crucial international incidents: fin April, 1969, a U.S...
...There have been few discoveries of medicinal agents for self-medication in a decade or more," Edwards testified...
...In furiously backing the hard-line war policies of both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon," wrote Clayton Fritchey, the Washington columnist recently, "Meany has spent energy and influence that might have been more usefully directed toward opposing the recessionary economic policies that have thrown millions out of work in the last few years...
...Quoting "Senate Republican sources" who had been briefed by intelligence experts, The New York Times reported on May 26 that the Russians were merely providing their old missiles with thicker concrete liners —just as the United States had done some years ago...
...This viewpoint has fueled the dispute...
...At a briefing on law enforcement and crime control held by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Reiss cited statistics from the survey he directed in 1967 which will be published as a book this summer...
...meddling in Latin affairs, this nation's "influence" has usually been aligned with the oligarchs and oppressors...
...It had not moved offshore because it received none of the messages in time...
...They dismiss complaints about the policy of impounding appropriations as political flack...
...It began last March 7, when Senator Henry M. Jackson, Washington Democrat, relying on information obviously leaked to him by the Defense Department, broke the "ominous" news that "the Russians are now in the process of deploying a new generation, and advanced generation of offensive systems...
...Because this could lead to a full-fledged national police force, we oppose the idea...
...Politics...
...When pressed, the President's men admit that Mr...
...From Russell on down, the Interior Department stuck to the curious line that the best tack was "persuasion" and "education" of the operator, as if coal mining were an industry founded yesterday morning...
...Failor said rather quizzically in a recent interview...
...The net effect of the year's delay is that some $1.3 billion in Federal subsidies for urban renewal, model cities, low-rent housing, water and sewer grants, and mass transit will not be spent...
...Johnson began holding back appropriations, after signing them into law, when the Vietnam war threw the budget out of whack and force-fed the inflation...
...Now, according to Barry Newman's recent story in The Wall Street Journal, American businessmen can and will dress up nearly anyone like a hippie, and make a fortune out of it...
...Unlike those previous efforts, the new mine safety law had promise because it had teeth...
...Mr...
...In almost every instance the heavily advertised products are more expensive to the consumer than comparable preparations With lower advertising budgets...
...The question Congress must soon face, Bicket said, is this: "Can advertising of medical products to the public ever be justified...
...In previous years of the past decade, median income had risen annually by as much as $500...
...Nixon's proposal to increase arms shipments seems designed to preserve and extend, and for this reason it should be rejected by Congress forthwith...
...As a whole, the Kennedy years were marked by a rapid decline in impoundments...
...the Boston percentage was 6.1 and Washington 5.2...
...The Administration's response, to the extent it has one, seems to be to encourage one and all to purchase common stocks...
...This seems, at least, to be the lesson of the recent episode that Senator William Prox-mire has aptly described as "the shortest missile gap in history...
...Enforcement of the law rests with the U.S...
...One of the nation's most influential super-hawks, he rallied the powerful support of his huge labor organization behind every move in President Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the war...
...Both Gillette and Vitalis offer special hair grooming aids for longhairs...
...The infractions ranged from neglect of duty to taking bribes...
...Many safety standards were written directly into law...
...Nixon pushed his anti-inflation drive, there was not too much that Democratic leaders could say about impoundments...
...The fourth scientist joining in the recommendations was Herbert Scoville, a former CIA deputy director and former official of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...
...While the President's aides publicly brush aside these allegations, they privately fear a legislative backlash from what they have done...
...cities already open to unstoppable devastation from Soviet missiles, it was "preposterous" to spend billions on a new defense against the small Soviet bomber force...
...Though the poor are bearing the greatest share of the burden of Nixo-nomics, the Census data indicate that middle-income Americans are also hurting...
...intelligence ship Pueblo was seized by North Korea in 1968...
...The Poor Get Poorer Census data released a few weeks ago confirm in the starkest detail the Nixon Administration's sorry record of domestic neglect...
...Events have spoken even more eloquently...
...The student reports disclosed that nearly one out of four policemen broke laws and departmental regulations even though they knew they were being observed...
...According to industry sources (which the FTC expert described as "underestimates" ) leading manufacturers devote a whopping 36.7 per cent of their wholesale revenue to advertising...
...to Assistant Secretary Hollis M. Dole, an industry favorite, and their underlings...
...Coal mining deaths in 1970 reached 255, surpassing the 1969 total by twenty-five per cent...
...Johnson would be cultivating their support for the war, he let loose $1.2 billion in impounded funds, mostly for highways and public works...
...Arms for Latin America The last thing that the impoverished nations of Latin America need is a massive infusion of costly, unnecessary, and potentially dangerous military hardware...
...Boston 10.3...
...Nixon's White House one does not equate such maneuvering with a sharing of power...
...Two Chicago policemen were seen accepting a bribe to alter their testimony, a crime not observed in Washington or Boston...
...The last thing is precisely what the Nixon Administration proposes to furnish...
...The figures, it should be noted, are based on the Government's own austere definition of poverty—in 1970, an annual income of $3,968 for a family of four...
...Nixon Administration officials recall that Democratic Presidents froze appropriations with equal zeal...
...Modest as the reductions proposed by the four scientists are, they constitute a hopeful beginning that should find significant support in the Congress...
...Operators did not know what to expect...
...Perhaps the CIA, whose devious dealings The Progressive has often denounced, is prepared to undertake a genuinely useful public service...
...Under the present Administration, Meany has been as gung-ho for a basically "military solution" as ever, a true comrade-in-arms of Richard Nixon on the war issue...
...In 1970, they were thirty-three per cent...
...Then, continued Newman, there are whole lines of cosmetics whose appeal to the female counterculture imitators is "that they don't make a girl look made-up...
...The hair, for instance," writes Newman, "may look unshorn, but that young fellow just paid a razor-yielding tonsorial artist $7.50 to get every strand carefully whittled into the right degree of shagginess...
...In this formulation, the Congress is seen as yet another pressure group that must be dealt with along the way...
...Bureau of Mines, which for years has been a spirited bedfellow of the industry...
...vessel, instructing it to move to a safe distance off the coasts of Israel and Egypt...
...Ward Sinclair (Mr...
...The FBI Director concentrates on political "subversives" while the crime syndicates prosper, and the AFL-CIO chief, as Fritchey noted, "is against unemployment but he is still more against political liberals...
...Each is advertised as uniquely different, twice as effective, or longer lasting than its competitors...
...the jeans cost more than ones that look new because you have to pay extra for the manufacturing processes by which they are "faded" and tattered at the factory...
...Politically untouchable civilian review boards with investigatory powers and personnel would provide a more promising approach...
...Herbert Scoville Jr., a former official of the CIA and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on May 25: "We must ask ourselves how many times we are going to allow the 'weaponeers' to come before the Congress and the people shouting 'missile gap' when in reality they are only creating another credibility gap...
Vol. 35 • July 1971 • No. 7
