TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
TIDBITS and... Loyal Republicans Early subscribers may recall our October, 1969, article on the Seafarer’s International Union, in which Jerry Landauer described how foreign seamen who...
...While these proposals are obviously an improvement, many of the dangers pointed out in our article still exist...
...Management Trainees, and Interns, $16,872 to $22,440...
...military outposts, Bob Hope began one monologue: “The Colonel gave me a shotgun to hunt pheasants with...
...Our confidence in the basic soundness of American society got another boost recently when John Emshwdler reported in The Wall Street Journal that doctors are at least seven times more likely to be addicted to drugs than the average man...
...If his reported estimates are correct, that gives us at least 5,700 physician addicts...
...For instance, on his recent Christmas special from Vietnam and other U.S...
...Unfortunately, the AF’ article conveyed the impression that the AEC’s decision was based solely on hypothetical safety considerations, rather than being a response to actual events...
...On January 29, the Atomic Energy Commission announced that it was tightening controls over fuel shipments and stockpiles...
...George Wilson of The Washington Post asked one of the Pentagon’s most experienced budget specialists to compute the cost to the public of one typical soldier who serves 20 years on active duty and then retires...
...The reason, we suspect, is that many liberals resist facing problems like this one, where the solutions involve tighter security...
...Nuclear materials wiU still be carried on cargo planes and other public carriers, and there is still the risk that shipments could be stolen at transfer or loading depots...
...If this does not increase support for complete disarmament, it should at least heighten interest in service careers...
...One of the nice things about such careers is that as a retired serviceman you can take another government job and keep your retirement pay as well...
...Micromation Specialist, $16,872 to $22,440...
...Meanwhile, the Airline Pilots Association has also taken up the issue, advocating banning radioactive substances from commercial aircraft-at least until the safety of mailing containers and special cargo holds is proven...
...On February 4, The New York Times Magazine published an article by Ralph Lapp describing the risks of nuclear hijacking and reproducing the Orlando letter reported in our article...
...The problem is that the Chicanos had just had all their teeth removed when the money stopped...
...People who think of the Postal Service as the friendly postmaster and his clerks or carriers will be intrigued with the new titles and pay scales now that the USPS is being operated like a business...
...This tale involved a 1972 Delta Airlines flight which contained an improperly sealed nuclear container which left radioactive residues in the cargo hold, contaminating baggage on 20 subsequent flights...
...The pilots provide us with another horror story of the dangers of transporting nuclear materials...
...Suggestions Award Administrator, $22,767 to $30,280...
...Fringe Benefit Specialist, $16,634 to $24,783...
...The Professionals and the Comedian Last month in this space we reported that lawyers are 7.5 times more likely to commit tax crimes than the average taxpayer...
...Thus, $500 contributions to the union’s special political fund came from such people as Jintoku Toma, Jinyu Yariku, Tsubio Kohatsu, Seigi Uehara, Koichi Miyazato, Gunvald Larsen, Oddbjorn Fritzoe, and Lars Alvin...
...Nicholas von Hoffman calls these people Double Dippers and says, “Only the U. S. government would pay pensions to people who are still working for it...
...Under the new rules, the AEC will no longer send large shipments of fissionable uranium and plutonium on normal passenger flights and there will be stricter safety precautions for the fuel that is carried in trucks...
...The story idea had been kicking around in our offices since the start of thle magazine, but the dozens of writers we mentioned it to always seemed to prefer other topics...
...The design of many nuclear power plants makes it impossible to take proper inventories...
...Loyal Republicans Early subscribers may recall our October, 1969, article on the Seafarer’s International Union, in which Jerry Landauer described how foreign seamen who wanted jobs on American ships seemed to take a sudden interest in political philanthropy...
...Rain, Sleet, and Dark of Night Department From Mike Causey’s column in The Washington Post, January 31,1973: The “plum book,” a limitededition guide to plush federal jobs for the politically plugged-in, has rolled off the presses...
...Silent Majority The scuttling of any government project brings its share of snafus, and the abrupt cancellation of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) is no exception...
...Schemes Routing Specialist, $16,872 to $22,440...
...Nuclear Hijacking Updated In our January issue, we published Tiimothy Ingram’s “Nuclear Hijacking,” which pointed out the danger that the nation’s inadequately guarded supplies of niiclear fuel could be stolen by criminals or terrorists aind turned into home-made A-bombs...
...And the rewards of government jobs are increasingly attractive...
...After what we are confident was careful consideration of the merits of the case, the Justice De part me nt decided-a few weeks before the November election-not to appeal the dismissal...
...We are sure these dedicated Nixon supporters will be pleased to learn that last year the SIU donated $100,000 to the Committee to Re-Elect the President...
...Assuming that pay and benefits continue to rise as they have in recent years, he figures the cost of the soldier to be $1,700,000...
...The number of Civil Service jobs at GS-14 and above (beginning salary now $23,085 as contrasted with $11,355 in 1958) has more than tripled in the last decade...
...The SIU donation was made the first week in November...
...OUTRAGES Voluntarism Doesn’t Come Cheap With the volunteer army now a reality, ever wonder what each career soldier will cost the taxpayer...
...I thought he said peasants...
...It is fatter than the 1969 version, and much more interesting thanks to the addition of nearly 2,000 attractive, if little-known, positions in the U. S. Postal Service...
...Civil Defense Coordinator, $18,634 to $24,783...
...We are glad, too, that the press is finally picking up this story...
...From Houston, Texas, we learn the fate of an OEO program designed to provide dentures for elderly Chicanos...
...According to the CiviJ Service Commission, at least 77,763 civilian government employees are also receiving military retirement pay (the actual figure is certainly much higher, since such agencies as the CIA and FBI weren’t included in the Commission’s survey...
...This is certainly a way to take the teeth out of effective programming...
...In addition, the UP1 carried our story, and AP reported the AEC announcement...
...But I almost got into trouble...
...But there can’t be anything seriously wrong with a people who can laugh...
...The union’s officers must have been pretty happy, too, for last May a federal judge dismissed a suit against them -accusing the SIU of using no n-vo lun t ary political donations-because the Justice Department had failed to press the case for two years...
...For instance: Manager of Creative Services, $25,183 to $33,493...
...We are glad to see that now something is being done about the nuclear fuel problem...
...Social Priorities Specialist, $18,634 to $24,783...
Vol. 5 • March 1973 • No. 1
