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...realize why J. Edgar Hoover had FBI men do his repair work. Since bugs or bombs could have easily been planted by repairmen, wasn't it safer and more economical for loyal employees to do the work? An alternative would have been to hire outside help and assign a loyal agent to watch each repairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Under the new order, Turner will get "full and exclusive authority" over preparing the intelligence community's budgets. He will also operate through a new National Intelligence Tasking Center-made up of officers from the entire intelligence community-to assign intelligence projects to each agency and coordinate their activities. But each department will retain operational authority over its own intelligence arms. Thus while the Tasking Center can order the Pentagon's National Reconnaissance Office to continue operating spy-in-the-sky satellites, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown will control the office's day-to-day operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Orders for the Admiral | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

Richard J. Bradley, executive director of NEASC, said Ford will assign commission members to the teams that visit colleges. The commission evaluates each New England college every ten years...

Author: By Joseph T. Smith, | Title: Ford Selected Chairman Of Accrediting Agency | 12/15/1977 | See Source »

...between one and 20 years; the actual time the felon serves would depend on prison and parole authorities' judgment of his progress toward rehabilitation. That, says Illinois Criminologist Hans Mattick, "made drama schools out of prisons and actors out of prisoners." Under the Illinois plan, the judge will assign a specifically legislated term-two, three or four years for a robbery felony, depending on circumstances. The convict's sentence can be reduced only by accumulation of "good time"-a day off for each day of trouble-free prison life. Argues former Minnesota Corrections Commissioner David Fogel, considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Fixed Sentences Gain Favor | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Under the existing law, the Federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare will assign transfers to each medical school from a group of foreign-trained Americans...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Congressmen Urge Revised Transfer Bill | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

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