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...Star usually supports Republicans, it has attacked his record. "This is a trumped-up affair and the prosecutor knows it," says Managing Editor Robert Early. "It's nothing but goddamned hokum." Says Douglass R. Shortridge, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association: "If this is the prosecutor's answer to criticism, then it is a sad day for our community...
...chance remark came in answer to criticism of the Administration's restrictive economic policies during a minisummit on social services held at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Arguing against cuts in social services, Jerry Wurf, fiery president of the State, County and Municipal Employees Union, charged that Government policies aim to shunt most of the burden of fighting inflation on the poor. Replying that everyone is hurt by inflation, Greenspan said: "If you really wanted to examine, percentagewise, who is hurt most in their incomes, it is the Wall Street brokers...
...Chairman John Nassikas has been called to answer the GAO charges before a meeting this week of the House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Nassikas argues that, faced with the possibility of gas shortages, his agency had the right to waive some requirements as an emergency measure. The GAO insists that accepting that argument would "make a sham" of the regulatory process. Moreover, the GAO estimates that of the $3.3 billion in increases that were collected, only one-third went to producers to increase gas supplies, which was the purpose of the move. The rest went to pipeline companies...
...former Presidents and other federal officials own the records they generated during their tours of public service? The answer is yes if tradition is the sole arbiter. Ever since George Washington carted home to Mount Vernon trunkloads of presidential papers, his successors and their executors have tightly controlled White House documents. The controversial agreement between representatives of Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, giving Nixon shared control over his material and allowing him to destroy the records after five years, reaffirms past practice...
None of the reporters at the press conference followed the Cuban question up, and I didn't see any commentary on it afterwards. Why wasn't Ford's answer--like the visits to Cuba at about the same time by Senate committee staffers and the contemplated visits by a couple of senators--subject to at least a little criticism in the light of the last ten years' history...