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There had been a whole series of ac tions to stave off a strike. When the last postponement ended June 19, the unions pledged not to strike. But a Johnson-proposed bill, imposing a binding settlement if no voluntary accord was reached, got hung up for a month in a Senate-House conference committee. With the matter still unresolved, the Machinists finally walked...
Ramsey Clark laid down the new rules in response to a 1965 order from President Johnson, who insisted that eavesdropping by Government agents be "fully in accord with the law and with a decent regard for the rights of others." The Justice Department, aware that a bugging case was before the U.S. Supreme Court, delayed issuing the memorandum until the court acted. Last month the court took its stand, declaring a New York State eavesdropping law unconstitutional by a vote of 5 to 4-with Associate Justice Tom Clark writing the majority decision. It was the last major case...
Author Desnoes, 37, was working as a journalist in New York when Castro took power, and went home of his own accord because "I never would be anybody outside my country." He now lives in Havana and is an editor of Cuba's national book-publishing company. The novel seems to give a picture of Castro's Cuba, warts and all: the endless waiting in lines, bureaucratic inefficiency, food shortages, paucity of merchandise in stores, and such trivial but revealing irritations as delays in deliveries of soft drinks because there are no corks for the bottles...
...Your otherwise commendable coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict was marred by the insertion of an unfunny and utterly tasteless collection of American-Jewish humor under the title "Blintzkrieg" [June 16]. "Witticisms," Voltaire once said, "do not accord with massacres...
...School of Education, this commitment is not stifling, but the students observe a substantial inconsistency between the goals which the school espouses and the educational process by which these goals are supposedly attained. The Ed School, in accord with the purposes outlined in the Scheffler Report of 1965, proclaims its commitment to training excellent educators who will also be agents of social change. Students accept this goal, but feel that their education is not living...