TIDBITS and OUTRAGES
TIDBITS and... OUTRAGES Upward Mobility Buried in the columns of the Federal Register are fascinating insights for those who have learned to read between the government’s lines. The new...
...Since then, Northwest has been remarkably prompt to shut down all operations whenever a local dispute arises...
...As Mitchell began traveling more and more frequ ently with President Nixon in 1970 and 1971, this requirement raised difficulties...
...17,120.00 Time Magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,850.00 Deeper Freeze J. Edgar Hoover may be gone, but his personnel practices are not forgotten, at least by HUD Secretary George Romney...
...Speaker, fortunately the cockatoo’s demise was not too tragic...
...Then, in the fall of 197 1, a Miami court freed a band of convicted smugglers because of a forged wiretap order...
...To keep the tappers busy, he thought up a shortcut...
...As an example of the way it really works, Mike Causey of l k e Washington Post reported that the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force recently gave out awards to 156 of its 276 employees...
...But tragic endings are all too common in the Newcastle program...
...Drug Trip Feeling sick...
...The defendants-mainly in for narcotics and organizedcrime chargeswere caught by wiretap evidence...
...Since then, a narcotics case in New Orleans and a Detroit gambling case have been overturned because of quickie-wiretaps...
...For the finale the ships formed two columns, with Rivero cruising down the middle in the opposite direction...
...One explanation for Northwest’s labor troubles may be the Mutual Aid cushion...
...Last year, Jay Thal, a housing program analyst, started publishing Quest, an underground journal designed, as he put it, “to wash HUD’s dirty linen in public...
...On June 12, he was assigned to Anchorage, Alaska...
...During this year’s strike the company collected $30 million from its competitors...
...In 1970, when all the other airlines were deep in the red, Northwest emerged from its half-year strike and declared a dividend...
...OUTRAGES Upward Mobility Buried in the columns of the Federal Register are fascinating insights for those who have learned to read between the government’s lines...
...A principal congressional purpose has been thwarted, and this court cannot and will not condone such procedures...
...A long trip may do you good...
...New evidence to support this fear comes from Northwest Orient Airlines...
...Fighting for Time The U. S. military aid program to Cambodia was intended to help the fighting little democracy protect itself...
...Good-bye Horacio As a retirement present for Admiral Horacio Rivero, 30 Navy ships carrying 2 1,000 men spent two days steaming up and down the Mediterranean, in formation...
...One helicopter went down, and the taxpayers were billed for approximately 500,000 man-hours of sailor time...
...The Man from Ag asphyxiated the cockatoo as part of the department’s efforts to stamp out the epidemic of exotic avian Newcastle disease now threatening every bird in the country...
...Nice Work The government has an “incentive award” program which costs the taxpayers millions of dollars each year...
...Hoover used to send dissenters to Butte, Montana...
...Romney, according to Jerry Oppenheimer of the Washington Evening Star News, likes to put them in even deeper freeze...
...The ruse was discovered, according to Tony Marro of Newsday, when wiretap orders signed “JNM” appeared while Mitchell was out of town...
...Far more than mere noncompliance with a ‘statutory technicality’ is here involved,” said Cornelia Kennedy, judge in the Detroit case...
...It is supposed to work by giving cash grants to employees who do especially fine jobs...
...Whenever Mitchell was away, he turned the wiretap approval over to his executive assistant, Sol Lindenbaum...
...A pet store owner can receive $2,000 for one bird while hundreds of poultrymen whose life’s work is being wiped out are brushed off with $1.54 per bird, which figure will not enable a poultryman to resume his business...
...The roller skating cockatoo was one of the millions of birds that have been eradicated in southern California the past several months, but there the resemblance ends...
...The new . ACTION agency-which contains the Peace Corps and VISTA, and where servants scarcely fit the image of service-published the following announcement on September 1: “Section 213.3359 is amended to reflect the following title change: From Chauffeur to the Director, to Confidential Aide to the Director...
...Cockatoo’s Lament Representative Victor Veysey in the Congressional Record: Mr...
...It had one long strike in 1966, a 160-day shutdown in 1970, and a95-day strike this year...
...K.) Doriden (CIBA) $8.00 $ .92 (Ireland) Pay Now-Fly Later Americans have often worried that if welfare becomes too comfortable, people will stop working and go on the dole...
...Some of the items granted so far are: Air Conditioning Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$65,407.97 Brewery Supplies (bottle tops) . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19,465.10 Television Sets...
...Its owner received $2,000 from the Federal Government in recognition of its potential earning power as a performer...
...Speaker, I rise to eulogize a euthanized cockatoo...
...Absentee Wiretapping In his eagerness to round up the nation’s crooks through wiretaps, John Mitchell took shortcuts which may set 1,000 defendants free...
...Now this was not a garden variety pink parrot, mind you, but a fledgling movie star whose career as a roller skater was snuffed out by a grim gasser from the Department of Agriculture...
...the wiretaps were authorized under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968...
...HEW has collected data comparing the prices drug companies charge for the same item in different countries: Drug (Manufacturer) U. S. Price Foreign Price Darvon (Lilly) $7.02/ 100 $1.66 (Ireland) Declomycin (Lederle) $19.79 $3.87 (New Zealand) Teramycin (Pfizer) $20.48 $9.79 (Australia) Erythrocin (Abbott) $20.12 $10.02 (U...
...But wiretaps are legal only if the attorney general-or an assistant attorney general he has de sign at e d - spec if ic ally approves them...
...In 1958 the nation’s airlines set up a “Mutual Aid Agreement”-a kind of reverse strike fund which would pay benefits to any airline closed by a strike...
Vol. 4 • November 1972 • No. 9
