Tidbits and Outrages

Tidbits and Outrages Who Was That Gang of Four I Saw You With Last Night? The Eyewitness News effect has apparently reached a l l the way to mainland China. “For the first time in many years,”...

...She quoted Treece as telling her and others in the Albany office that whoever had leaked the information would be killed-‘run over 13 times in his car.’ “After reports of recruiting abuses appeared in an Albany newspaper, Wainwright said, ‘someone broke into my apartment two or three times over the weekend...
...If Kennedy’s amendment were agreed to, he said, ‘it will abolish first class,’ and that, he felt, would be bad...
...Today’s first witness before the House Armed Services Investigations Subcommittee was Sgt...
...The Soviet Union said more than ten years ago that it would withdraw its troops from Hungary and it has not withdrawn them until now,” muses the fust Bulgarian...
...If Chile is the longest country,” the first says, “how long does it take to ride a horse from one end of it to the other...
...The Kennedy people are no1 ha py with Gaylord “Conservatives lined up against Kennedy...
...If he’d voted with Kennedy in the first place, Kennedy could have made a parliamentary maneuver that would have led to another vote...
...Kenny Treece testified...
...I suppose one year at the most...
...I Am Joe’s Transnatiod Linkage Joseph Daniel Duffey, the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs and the President’s choice to head the National Endowment for the Humanities, is said to prefer to be called “Joe...
...They left all my lights on, my doors open and strangled my cat.’ “One Albany district recruiter who did not testify and who requested anonymity, said quota pressures were very strong...
...Leah Wainwright, who first brought the issue to the attention of Chairman Samuel S. Stratton (DN.Y...
...and of environmentalist supporters of energy conservation: Every Bureaucrat a King Senator Edward M. Kennedy recently offered an amendment that would have forbidden the government to pay the cost of first-class air travel for federal employees, including members of Congress...
...In thai way, they contribute ar much to inflated Federal budgets as do the liberals who line up for direcl spending for social-welfare programs...
...in an anonymous letter...
...Warren Magnuson of the state of Washington said it’s a long flight back home for him and his wife, and he just wasn’t going to fly coach-ever...
...But, Isaacs warns, they’re not exactly sidesplitters...
...To have foot space we need first-class seats with all that baggage.’ “Sen...
...Take this paragraph from a recent statement about the work of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs: “At such a time, the stimulation of trans...
...They- ask themselves, as they walk through the first-class cabin on the way to coach...
...But when the vote came in the Senate, Hart lost 66 to 28...
...here’s an example : Two Bulgarians are talking in a coffee shop...
...If you make the numbers you’re a hero...
...if not, your career is down the tube,’ he said...
...For the first time in many years,” writes Arnold Isaacs in ?“he Baltimore Sun, “The People’s Daily has enlivened its pages with jokes...
...Kennedy notes he wasn’t asking anyone to give up first-class travel...
...The record shows the vote was 43 t9 45, bui that’s wrong...
...Today’s Action Anny If you’ve forgotten about My Lai and the bodycount mentality that led to it, we urge you to read the following report by Ted Cup of i%e Washington Post: “ALBANY, N.Y., July 30-Army witnesses told a House investigations subcommittee today that pressures were so great that they put fictitious names and data into a computer to fill weekly recruiting quotas...
...AU in all, an irresistible case...
...If there is a demand for first-class service the market will provide it . . . . The fact of the matter is that most Americans cannot afford to fly on the airlines...
...She is always bringing along strawberries for someone...
...sidizing the people in the first-class section?’ “Good question...
...It was a collective agreement,’ M. Sgt...
...People could pay for the difference between coach fare and first class out of their own pockets...
...Why not let the market place make the decision?’ Kennedy asked...
...If they can, they cannot afford to buy firstclass tickets...
...So Senator Gary Hart’s recent proposal that congressmen and their staff, who now park for free, pay from $10 to $50 per month depending on their income still seemed to offer a bargain to people who work on the Hill...
...Note among the yeas (those voting for free parking) the number of conservatives who one would have thought would be opponents of government handouts...
...If you don’t make mission [quota] , you’re done...
...It’s all based on numbers...
...They almost always line up foi indirect spending...
...You can imanine how long Hungarv is...
...Where You Stand Is Where You Park Parking in Washington costs the average person $60 to $70 per month...
...why should they be sub...
...tuted too large a share oi our activities...
...He said that ‘phantom recruiting’ was needed to bolster morale in a recruiting district unable to meet its quotas...
...Wainwright said she sent her letter anonymously to protect her career...
...Some people are four feet taller than I am . . . e It is a matter of human kindness to have enough space so they can spread out . . . . ’ Beyond that, he argued, ‘I know when I travel I oftentimes go first class because my wife is like my mother used to be...
...The vote was close42 yes, 46 no...
...But his taste for informality does not seem to extend to his public p r o n ou n c e ments...
...He was simply suggesting that the taxpayers shouldn’t be asked to subsidize it...
...Here’s Jim Perry’s report of what followed, from the late, lamented National Observer: “Russell Long is chairman of the Finance Committee, and he doesn’t like amendments to his legislation and he especially doesn’t like amendments sponsored by Ted Kennedy...
...Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin voted against Kennedy and then when he came back from dinner he changed his vote the other way...
...The small charge, it was assumed, would be paid from the substantial salary increases to congressmen and their employees, and if anyone didn’t want to pay he could use public transportation and save energy...
...national linkages necessary for meaningful two-way communication musi supersede propagandistic and chauvinistic functions which in the past consti...
...She testified that the fictitious names were those of bona fide recruits with single letters changed and one digit changed in their Social Security numbers...
...One asks, “DO you know which is the longest country?’’ “Chile,” says the other...

Vol. 9 • September 1977 • No. 7


 
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