Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Ready, Willing. . . Les Aspin, the Wisconsin Democrat who does such a good job of keeping the military on its toes, recently found another Pentagon outrage, according to the...
...All that drive that brought on the most explosive “It’s still there...
...They’re spending as though they believe there’s no end to it...
...Burning draft cards...
...It’s not going to be this way anymore!’ And it hasn’t been...
...The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulffl the noble and benign offices of wife and mother...
...The new materialists’ Yankelovich calls this new breed...
...But it’s been redirected...
...How to Keep a Fire Going One of Washington’s worst problems is its lack of awareness of the way its rules affect the operation of 1 programs around the country...
...all aerial photos of the region taken between 1938 and 1945 are still classified under World War I1 regulations...
...No big families yet...
...Rioting...
...Where did all the energy go...
...Definitely...
...Les Aspin has charged that some Army reports doctored weekly status reports to cover up deficiencies in the combat readiness of their equipment...
...64 billion in life insurance...
...Also he said, the Air Force ‘cannibalization’ rate has doubled in the past three years...
...M.A.s, M.B.A.s, Ph.D.s-they’re getting more faster...
...It adds little to deterrence to have exotic new weapons on the drawing boards when large numbers of our current planes, tanks, and ships cannot be relied upon today,’ he said...
...Hedonistic...
...Frederick J. Kroesen, who was commander of VI1 Corps in Stuttgart, Germany, last fall, as exhorting his officers to ‘continue to peak for report . . . . ’ “Aspin said this indicated deception and ‘there is one clear reason for encouraging such deception-the general wanted another star.’ ” . . .And Able If this suggests that things aren’t in very good shape, here’s another AP report to cheer you up: “Sen...
...He must prepare an environmental impact statement on every aspect of the proposed action-a statement that may cost thousands of tax dollars and take six months to prepare-and get it approved in Washington by someone who may never have seen the swamp, “If a government biologist needs an aerial photo of the swamp taken 33 years ago to gauge tree growth since 1944, he can’t just have one sent down from Washington...
...I stay away from cheap.’ “The point is, they don’t mind spending because they’re going straight to where the money is...
...Painted vans...
...Last year alone they spent $16 billion on new cars and $2.2 billion on new clothes...
...Grassroots Politics We so often condemn federal officials for not showing sufficient concern for the citizens out there in the hinterlands that we feel obligated to recognize those exceptional Washington bureaucrats who do get out of the conference room and into the provinces...
...Man is, 3r should be, woman’s protector and defender...
...Optimistic...
...They must notify the U.S...
...Doors are Complex, See The West Virginia House of Delegates has 12 doorkeepers...
...And it’s that way across the board...
...We think it’s the most vital, alive group of prospects American business has been blessed with since the post-World War I1 boom...
...I “Retired Young Rebels for Hire “Which brings us to the relatively quiet 70’s...
...He said increasing costs have reduced training ‘to the point that few soldiers, sailors, and airmen actually get to fire the weapons assigned to them, or with sufficient frequency to develop proficiency...
...Annuals of Justice For the sexual reactioniries among our readers, we have unearthed the folowing opinion of the Illinlis Supreme Court, written in 1872, refusing to yant a woman a license to practice law: “ . . . civil law, as well is nature herself, has always recognized a wide iifference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman...
...And they’re doing just as well in the professions...
...You Save a Little Here, You Spend a Little There If you’ve been impressed by the austerity of the Carter White House, you might ponder the fact that while it was canceling newspaper subscriptions, it was also, according to John Cramer of The Washington Star, spending $330,000 to quiet the air conditioning in ten presidential helicopters...
...Another Generation Bites the Dust If we occasionally appear to rail excessively against the materialism of American youth, evidence that our spleen has at least some realistic basis comes from a recent ad for Playboy, which reads in part: “Good News for American Business: “Today’s young men are getting richer, quicker...
...They wouldn’t listen because they had listened...
...No worry about a rainy day...
...So I buy it.’ “ ‘I spend more than I make, but that’s OK because I’m making it.’ “ ‘I’m very price conscious...
...The Wisconsin Democrat said in a statement yesterday that reports sent monthly to the Pentagon by some units showed marked improvement in combat ready status than the brigade-level reports prepared the week before and the week after...
...Les Aspin, the Wisconsin Democrat who does such a good job of keeping the military on its toes, recently found another Pentagon outrage, according to the AP: “Rep...
...John Culver said yesterday that U.S...
...Recently, officials from the Office of the Federal Register traveled all the way to Honolulu to hold a three-hour workshop on how to use the Federal Register...
...Aspin said one unit reported three pieces of equipment were inoperable, and then deleted the report by having them crossed out...
...Some didn’t hold out much hope for them a few years ago...
...Beards and long hair...
...The constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as in the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood...
...fie natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life...
...Fish and Wildlife Headquarters in Boise, Idaho, which in turn must notify the North Carolina Division of Forest Resources in Raleigh, which in turn will decide how many firefighters and how much equipment to dispatch from there to battle the swamp fire in Virginia...
...He cited one unit of the 1st Cavalry Division that shot up from a 68 per cent readiness to 90 per cent the week the report went to the Pentagon, then fell to 63 and 58 per cent the following two weeks when the readiness reports stayed at brigade level...
...military forces ‘are in a shocking state of combat readiness’ and that ‘on any given day only about half our combat aircraft are operationally ready to perform their missions.’ “The Iowa Democrat also declared that ‘only about half our ships are operationally ready at any time.’ “Culver made his comments in a report to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the basis of inspections at 12 military installations in December...
...Culver made a number of recommendations to ‘improve our combat readiness now.’ He proposed slowing down purchases of advanced new weapons systems until existing equipment is fully operational, refraining from diverting military supplies to foreign sales while US...
...A week later, Aspin said, the unit’s readiness status jumped to 90 per cent when the reports were scheduled to be sent up to the chain of command again...
...What they were saying was, ‘Youlisten...
...This under-35 generation includes the fastest-advancing, highest-paid group of young managers ever to hit American business...
...Washington reporters, by focusing on the city’s intramural life, seldom do anything to help meet the problem...
...And heard it a l l before...
...The Army immediately denied the accusation...
...An exception is this report by ~ Ken Ringle of m e Washington Post, from the Dismal I Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: 1 “When fire breaks out in the forested peat bogs the rangers can’t just call the nearest fire department...
...He said that was the week in which the unit received a top rating for its equipment, but that same equipment was inoperable in both the preceding and following weeks...
...Today, a young lawyer, fresh from his bar exams, starts out at $25,000 in some of the more prestigious New York law firms...
...Perhaps...
...Up through generations, what they saw as an endless trip of hypocrisy, falseness and blurred values...
...And their spending isn’t as frivolous as you might think...
...Toward making up for lost time...
...The harmony, not to say identity, of interests and views which belong, or should belong, to the family institution is repugnant to the idea of a woman adopting a distinct and independent career from that of her husband...
...As a group, today’s young adult males already own $27 billion in securities...
...I figure if I buy it, I’ll find a way to pay for it...
...No big mortgages...
...I’ll start saving someday, “His friends say the same thing, differently...
...armed forces are shorted, and increasing flight training hours and live firings of weapons...
...Tearing up campuses...
...Absent Friends An Atlanta law firm recently sent ot this announcement: POWELL, GOLDSTEIN, FRAZER & MURPHY ANNOUNCE THAT STRUART E. EIZENSTAT HAS WITHDRAWN AS A MEMBER OF THE FIRM TO BECOME ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR DOMESTIC AFFAIRS AND POLICY The announcement proceeds not to say, if you want to get in touch with Stu here’s his address, but to list the names of the 32 members of the firm and to give their address...
...There are nine doors to its chamber...
...The Wisconsin Democrat cited the name of Lt...
...If the refuge manager decides some trees must be cut, a field must be burned, or some deer must be shot for the welfare of the swamp ecosystem as a whole, he can’t just order it done...
...It is true that many women are unmarried and not affected by any of the duties, complications, and incapacities arising out of the married state, but these are exceptions to the general rule...
...Ira Madris, one of the new breed, puts it this way...
...Culver charged that some maintenance personnel report spending a third to half their time switching parts from one aircraft to another to get them ready for flight...
...They’re going into hock because there’s nothing to hold them back...
...Last year, Culver said, an average of about 25 per cent of the Navy’s aircraft was grounded by lack of spare parts...
Vol. 9 • May 1977 • No. 3
