TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages Caspar the Courageous This month’s courage in government award goes to HEW ’ Secretary Caspar Wein- , berger. Responding to 1 the charge that enforcement of school...
...Of course the Times staff had been busy that week putting together another book, The End of a Presidency...
...Over at the Atomic Energy Commission, where safety violations threaten not only the workers, but all of us, enforcement is equally zealous...
...One of the more conspicuous current deficiencies in such enforcement concerns the maiming and murder of workers through corporate violation of safety laws...
...During the year,” reported Burnham, “the commission imposed punishments on only eight occasions...
...It revoked the license of two small companies and levied civil penalites against six others totaling $37,000...
...Perhaps we should all cancel our Times and Post subscriptions and join the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...The Bureau of Mines, for example, ordered United States Steel to pay a fine of $7,500 for neghgence that resulted in the death of a West Virginia coal miner, but the government s u b s e q u e n t l y compromised the case for $ 3 0 0 . A t o t a l of $44,379,268 has been assessed against the nation’s coal companies for violation of safety laws, but the government has collected only $6,901,850...
...It develops that Woodward and Bernstein are going to write the story as a book for which they have received a $300,000 advance from Simon and Schuster...
...This could create some problems, admitted Ravy Commander Fr&k Kretchman...
...The New York Times reported it only after the other three had gone to press...
...A group called the Joint Interface Task Force is studving the problem...
...The Knight newspapers, Time, and Newsweek all published the story before the Post...
...Saving It for Simon & Schuster In the days surrounding Nixon’s resignation, readers of The Washington Post who wanted the inside story of what had happened in the White House were doomed to disappointment...
...Ninetyeight per cent “caused or were likely to cause radiation exposure to employees or the public in excess of permitted limits, involved the release of radioactive materials in the environment beyond permitted limits or were a security threat...
...Responding to 1 the charge that enforcement of school desegregation was far more stringent in the South, We inberger explained t h a t was because “opposition to busing and various forms of desegregation is far stronger” in the North...
...The New York Times reported it only after the other three had gone to press...
...Perhaps we should all cancel our Times and Post subscriptions and join the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...rews recently reported that the Army’s computer can’t talk to I the Navy’s computer or, or that matter, to the digital wonder operated by the Air Force...
...Of course the Times staff had been busy that week putting together another book, The End of a Presidency...
...No Siricas They Elsewhere in this issue we urge vigorous enforcement of the laws against violent crime...
...In such a case, seconds count,” and at present the Army can’t tell “directly, instantly” that the Navy plane is on our side...
...Kretchman said that there would be problems if a Navy plane were heading toward an Army anti-aircraft installation which is on alert...
...Interface Follies The Washinnton StarSaving It for Simon & Schuster In the days surrounding Nixon’s resignation, readers of The Washington Post who wanted the inside story of what had happened in the White House were doomed to disappointment...
...There was, to be sure, a massive special section on Nixon and Watergate, but not one news story devoted to what Haig and Kissinger said to Nixon and Nixon said to them that week...
...The Knight newspapers, Time, and Newsweek all published the story before the Post...
...There was, to be sure, a massive special section on Nixon and Watergate, but not one news story devoted to what Haig and Kissinger said to Nixon and Nixon said to them that week...
...It develops that Woodward and Bernstein are going to write the story as a book for which they have received a $300,000 advance from Simon and Schuster...
...According to David Burnham of The New York Times, Commission investigators found a total of 3,333 violations ip 1,288 of the 3,047 installations they visited in the last fiscal year...
Vol. 6 • October 1974 • No. 8
