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...hurt too much, given the amenities made available to him, which include a chauffeur-driven Mercedes. For Korchnoi, who lives modestly in Wohlen, Switzerland, and earns some $3,000 a month from exhibitions and tournaments, the money would come in handy, especially should he lose a $100,000 breach of contract suit being brought against him by his ex-manager...
...settle. He lectured Snepp about his having no right to reveal classified material. When reminded that the case involved no classified material, the judge accused the defense of "dealing in semantics." Lewis' judgment, which Snepp intends to appeal: "I think it was a willful, deliberate and surreptitious breach of contract and the highest public trust. He never said he was doing it, a la the Pentagon papers, to save the country. He did it for the money." Lewis suggested that the proper penalty, which he will announce as part of his written verdict this week, "might be to relieve...
...first year of operation, HEW's budget was a mere $5.4 billion, of which $3.4 billion went for Social Security. Immediately the department became a political issue, as congressional Democrats pressured Ike to increase funding. He held off until the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957. Then the first significant breach was made in hold-the-line spending. Fearful that the Russians might surpass the U.S. in science and technology, the President backed the National Defense Education Act, which authorized $900 million in aid to schools and colleges, especially for scientific study...
...them to Vietnam through a CIA agent, they maintain that their purpose was not espionage but a part of a campaign to normalize relations between the United States and Vietnam. During their trial, both prosecution and defense witnesses disagreed whether the passing of the documents in question constituted a breach of national security; many witnesses admitted that the papers contained little in the way of sensitive material. While the two did break the law in stealing the documents, the government has trumped up the severity of the charges against them...
Michigan's attorney general has ruled that Geralds' crime does not constitute a "breach of the public trust," as defined in the state's constitution. He is therefore not liable to automatic dismissal. The ruling means that Geralds' fellow legislators must take personal responsibility for his expulsion by a two-thirds majority of the 109-member house. It is a task that they−or at least his 67 fellow Democrats−approach with great reluctance. Says House Speaker Bobby Crim: "There is definitely sympathy for a man who has a family and where there...