Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hints and asked the group in to last week's meeting. By that time both the Administration and the Jewish leaders wanted the give-and-take, and afterward both considered it successful. With some understatement, Bookbinder observed: "It cannot be said that the Jewish community has not had access to the White House...
...large reason for that access is the persuasiveness of Rabbi Schindler, who has become the most prominent spokesman for America's disparate Jewish groups. As head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, he has to bridge the differences among 32 groups, which have varying degrees of commitment to religion, Zionism and political action. Sometimes he is also a bridge between the U.S. and Israel. Right after the meeting he flew to Israel, where he had a morning conference with Premier Menachem Begin, followed by lunch with U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. Begin is coming to Washington...
Government and private snoops also have easy access to the records in credit bureaus and credit card companies on the income, job history, shopping habits, travel and entertainment expenditures of more than 100 million Americans. Even the most elaborate safeguards cannot prevent unauthorized snoops from getting at the information. Last year TRW Credit Data discovered that a ring of criminals, for fees of $600 to $1,000, was cleaning up bad credit records stored by TRW's computer...
...Government's growing role in paying for medical treatment poses another problem. To process Medicare claims, two insurance companies were given access to the bare minimum of information in the Social Security Administration's records; the information-for instance, the person's birth date and the amount of the bill-was needed to verify claims. The same computer contains highly personal facts, including family income, expenditures and assets, that are supposed to be kept private. Though Social Security officials assured the Linowes commission that safeguards had been designed to keep the insurers from obtaining this information...
...point most observers are agreed: homosexuals are more vulnerable to physical attack because accepting sexual invitations from total strangers is an established part of the gay scene. Says Berkeley Psychologist Michael Evans: "Homosexuals are an easy population to get access to in some anonymous way." Chicago Police Sgt. Richard Sandberg puts it more tersely: "The gays are easy prey...